Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Bernh. Tauchnitz jun., 1850 - 349 pages |
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Page 16
... things which had passed away , it was absurd to regard him as the real master of Hindostan . In the year 1748 , died one of the most powerful of the new masters of India , the great Nizam al Mulk , Viceroy of the Deccan . His authority ...
... things which had passed away , it was absurd to regard him as the real master of Hindostan . In the year 1748 , died one of the most powerful of the new masters of India , the great Nizam al Mulk , Viceroy of the Deccan . His authority ...
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... thing that is related of the Tenth Legion of Cæsar , or of the Old Guard of Napoleon . The sepoys came to Clive , not to com- plain of their scanty fare , but to propose that all the grain should be given to the Europeans , who required ...
... thing that is related of the Tenth Legion of Cæsar , or of the Old Guard of Napoleon . The sepoys came to Clive , not to com- plain of their scanty fare , but to propose that all the grain should be given to the Europeans , who required ...
Page 26
... thing as it fell out ; a man of an undaunted resolution , of a cool temper , and of a presence of mind which never left him in the greatest danger born a soldier ; for , without a military education of any sort , or much conversing with ...
... thing as it fell out ; a man of an undaunted resolution , of a cool temper , and of a presence of mind which never left him in the greatest danger born a soldier ; for , without a military education of any sort , or much conversing with ...
Page 31
... things took a different course . The remnant of the Tory Opposition , contemptible as it was , had yet sufficient weight to turn the scale between the nicely - ba- lanced parties of Newcastle and Fox . Newcastle the Tories could only ...
... things took a different course . The remnant of the Tory Opposition , contemptible as it was , had yet sufficient weight to turn the scale between the nicely - ba- lanced parties of Newcastle and Fox . Newcastle the Tories could only ...
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... into it promiscuously , and covered up . But these things which , after the lapse of more than eighty years , cannot be told or read without horror , awakened nei- sons were eager to be restored to their posts and LORD CLIVE . 37.
... into it promiscuously , and covered up . But these things which , after the lapse of more than eighty years , cannot be told or read without horror , awakened nei- sons were eager to be restored to their posts and LORD CLIVE . 37.
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