Macaulay: Prose and PoetryRupert Hart-Davis, 1952 - 864 pages |
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... native merchants resident at Calcutta , and had sustained great losses in consequence of the Nabob's expedition against that place . In the course of his com- mercial transactions , he had seen much of the English , and was peculiarly ...
... native merchants resident at Calcutta , and had sustained great losses in consequence of the Nabob's expedition against that place . In the course of his com- mercial transactions , he had seen much of the English , and was peculiarly ...
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... natives of India . " ] As it seems to be the opinion of some of the gentlemen who com- pose the Committee of Public ... native who was familiar with the poetry of Milton , the Metaphysics of Locke , and the Physics of Newton ; but that ...
... natives of India . " ] As it seems to be the opinion of some of the gentlemen who com- pose the Committee of Public ... native who was familiar with the poetry of Milton , the Metaphysics of Locke , and the Physics of Newton ; but that ...
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... native society left to itself , we have no difficulties to apprehend ; all the murmuring will come from that oriental interest which we have , by artificial means , called into being , and nursed into strength . There is yet another ...
... native society left to itself , we have no difficulties to apprehend ; all the murmuring will come from that oriental interest which we have , by artificial means , called into being , and nursed into strength . There is yet another ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND SELECTED PASSAGES II | 13 |
ESSAYS | 233 |
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