Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 4Tauchnitz, 1850 - 349 pagina's |
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Pagina 4
... India Company , and shipped him off to make a fortune or to die of a fever at Madras . Far different were the prospects of Clive from those of the youths whom the East India College now annually sends to the Presidencies of our Asiatic ...
... India Company , and shipped him off to make a fortune or to die of a fever at Madras . Far different were the prospects of Clive from those of the youths whom the East India College now annually sends to the Presidencies of our Asiatic ...
Pagina 6
... Indian was then much more estranged from his country , much more addicted to Oriental usages , and much less fitted to mix in society after his return to Europe , than ... India till more than a year after he had left England 6 LORD CLIVE .
... Indian was then much more estranged from his country , much more addicted to Oriental usages , and much less fitted to mix in society after his return to Europe , than ... India till more than a year after he had left England 6 LORD CLIVE .
Pagina 9
... India were at the dis- posal of the governor of Pondicherry alone ; and that Madras should be rased to the ground . Labourdonnais was com- pelled to yield . The anger which the breach of the capitula- tion excited among the English was ...
... India were at the dis- posal of the governor of Pondicherry alone ; and that Madras should be rased to the ground . Labourdonnais was com- pelled to yield . The anger which the breach of the capitula- tion excited among the English was ...
Pagina 10
... India . Clive had been only a few months in the army when intel- ligence arrived that peace had been concluded between Great Britain and France . Dupleix was in consequence compelled to restore Madras to the English Company ; and the ...
... India . Clive had been only a few months in the army when intel- ligence arrived that peace had been concluded between Great Britain and France . Dupleix was in consequence compelled to restore Madras to the English Company ; and the ...
Pagina 14
... India by fifteen thousand miles of sea , and possessing in India only a few acres for purposes of commerce , would , in less than a hundred years , spread its empire from Cape Comorin to the eternal snow of the Hima- layas ; would ...
... India by fifteen thousand miles of sea , and possessing in India only a few acres for purposes of commerce , would , in less than a hundred years , spread its empire from Cape Comorin to the eternal snow of the Hima- layas ; would ...
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