Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 4Tauchnitz, 1850 - 349 pagina's |
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Pagina 6
... some months at the Brazils , where the young adventurer picked up some knowledge of Portuguese and spent all his pocket - money . He did not arrive in India till more than a year after he had left England 6 LORD CLIVE .
... some months at the Brazils , where the young adventurer picked up some knowledge of Portuguese and spent all his pocket - money . He did not arrive in India till more than a year after he had left England 6 LORD CLIVE .
Pagina 7
... England . The lad's shy and haughty disposition withheld him from introducing himself to strangers . He was several months in India before he became acquainted with a single family . The climate affected his health and spirits . His ...
... England . The lad's shy and haughty disposition withheld him from introducing himself to strangers . He was several months in India before he became acquainted with a single family . The climate affected his health and spirits . His ...
Pagina 8
... England was even then the first of maritime powers , she was not , as she has since become , more than a match on the sea for all the nations of the world together ; and she found it difficult to maintain a contest against the united ...
... England was even then the first of maritime powers , she was not , as she has since become , more than a match on the sea for all the nations of the world together ; and she found it difficult to maintain a contest against the united ...
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... England . It was under the reign of Aurung- zebe that this wild clan of plunderers first descended from their mountains ; and soon after his death , every corner of his wide empire learned to tremble at the mighty name of the Mahrattas ...
... England . It was under the reign of Aurung- zebe that this wild clan of plunderers first descended from their mountains ; and soon after his death , every corner of his wide empire learned to tremble at the mighty name of the Mahrattas ...
Pagina 17
... England as the Nabob of Arcot , and who owes to the elo- quence of Burke a most unenviable immortality , fled with a scanty remnant of his army to Trichinopoly ; and the con- querors became at once masters of almost every part of the ...
... England as the Nabob of Arcot , and who owes to the elo- quence of Burke a most unenviable immortality , fled with a scanty remnant of his army to Trichinopoly ; and the con- querors became at once masters of almost every part of the ...
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