Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 4Tauchnitz, 1850 - 349 pagina's |
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Pagina 23
... enemy advanced driving before them elephants whose foreheads were armed with iron plates . It was expected that the gates would yield to the shock of these living battering - rams . But the huge beasts no sooner felt the English musket ...
... enemy advanced driving before them elephants whose foreheads were armed with iron plates . It was expected that the gates would yield to the shock of these living battering - rams . But the huge beasts no sooner felt the English musket ...
Pagina 24
... enemy were no more to be seen . They had retired , leaving to the English several guns and a large quantity of ammunition . The news was received at Fort St. George with transports of joy and pride . Clive was justly regarded as a man ...
... enemy were no more to be seen . They had retired , leaving to the English several guns and a large quantity of ammunition . The news was received at Fort St. George with transports of joy and pride . Clive was justly regarded as a man ...
Pagina 26
... 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 found it difficult ...
... 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 found it difficult ...
Pagina 27
... enemies to the government of Madras on every side , and found tools even among the allies of the English Company . But all was in vain . Slowly , but steadily , the power of Britain continued to increase , and that of France to decline ...
... enemies to the government of Madras on every side , and found tools even among the allies of the English Company . But all was in vain . Slowly , but steadily , the power of Britain continued to increase , and that of France to decline ...
Pagina 28
... enemy from learning that they were too late , laid an ambus- cade for them on the road , killed a hundred of them with one fire , took three hundred prisoners , pursued the fugitives to the gates of Chingleput , laid siege instantly to ...
... enemy from learning that they were too late , laid an ambus- cade for them on the road , killed a hundred of them with one fire , took three hundred prisoners , pursued the fugitives to the gates of Chingleput , laid siege instantly to ...
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