Critical and Historical Essays1951 |
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Page 515
... India , intimately acquainted as he was with Indian politics and with the Indian character , and adored as he was by his Indian soldiery , he never learned to express himself with facility in any Indian language . He is said indeed to ...
... India , intimately acquainted as he was with Indian politics and with the Indian character , and adored as he was by his Indian soldiery , he never learned to express himself with facility in any Indian language . He is said indeed to ...
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... India House , hated , above all , by those wealthy and powerful servants of the Com- pany , whose rapacity and tyranny he had withstood . He had to bear the double odium of his bad and of his good actions , of every Indian abuse and of ...
... India House , hated , above all , by those wealthy and powerful servants of the Com- pany , whose rapacity and tyranny he had withstood . He had to bear the double odium of his bad and of his good actions , of every Indian abuse and of ...
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... India the case is widely different . English law , transplanted to that country , has all the vices from which we suffer here ; it has them all in a far higher degree ; and it has other vices , com- pared with which the worst vices from ...
... India the case is widely different . English law , transplanted to that country , has all the vices from which we suffer here ; it has them all in a far higher degree ; and it has other vices , com- pared with which the worst vices from ...
Contents
HALLAMS HISTORY | 3 |
RANKES HISTORY OF THE POPES | 31 |
INDEX | 38 |
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