Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 4Tauchnitz, 1850 - 349 pagina's |
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Pagina 8
... 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 navies of France and Spain . In the Eastern seas France obtained the ascendency ...
... 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 navies of France and Spain . In the Eastern seas France obtained the ascendency ...
Pagina 13
... become great sovereigns , therefore cease to be freebooters . They still retained the predatory habits of their forefathers . Every region which was not subject to their rule was wasted by their incursions . Wherever their kettle- drums ...
... become great sovereigns , therefore cease to be freebooters . They still retained the predatory habits of their forefathers . Every region which was not subject to their rule was wasted by their incursions . Wherever their kettle- drums ...
Pagina 19
... become the real masters of the whole peninsula of India . It was absolutely necessary to strike some daring blow . If an attack were made on Arcot , the capital of the Carnatic , and the favourite residence of the Nabobs , it was not ...
... become the real masters of the whole peninsula of India . It was absolutely necessary to strike some daring blow . If an attack were made on Arcot , the capital of the Carnatic , and the favourite residence of the Nabobs , it was not ...
Pagina 26
... become one . His enemies accused him of per- sonal cowardice ; and he defended himself in a strain worthy of Captain Bobadil . He kept away from shot , he said , because silence and tranquillity were propitious to his genius , and he ...
... become one . His enemies accused him of per- sonal cowardice ; and he defended himself in a strain worthy of Captain Bobadil . He kept away from shot , he said , because silence and tranquillity were propitious to his genius , and he ...
Pagina 29
... become so great a man . His father had been singularly hard of belief . Not until the news of the defence of Arcot arrived in England was the old gentleman heard to growl out that , after all , the booby had something in him . His ...
... become so great a man . His father had been singularly hard of belief . Not until the news of the defence of Arcot arrived in England was the old gentleman heard to growl out that , after all , the booby had something in him . His ...
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