Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 4Tauchnitz, 1850 - 349 pagina's |
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... letters , who were ignorant of the use of metals , who had not broken in a single animal to labour , who wielded no better weapons than those which could be made out of sticks , flints , and fish - bones , who regarded a horse - soldier ...
... letters , who were ignorant of the use of metals , who had not broken in a single animal to labour , who wielded no better weapons than those which could be made out of sticks , flints , and fish - bones , who regarded a horse - soldier ...
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... letters written by his relations when he was in his seventh year ; and from these letters it appears that , even at that early age , his strong will and his fiery passions , sustained by a constitutional intrepi- dity which sometimes ...
... letters written by his relations when he was in his seventh year ; and from these letters it appears that , even at that early age , his strong will and his fiery passions , sustained by a constitutional intrepi- dity which sometimes ...
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... letters of recommendation to a gentleman who might have assisted him ; but when he landed at Fort St. George he found that this gentleman had sailed for England . The lad's shy and haughty disposition withheld him from introducing ...
... letters of recommendation to a gentleman who might have assisted him ; but when he landed at Fort St. George he found that this gentleman had sailed for England . The lad's shy and haughty disposition withheld him from introducing ...
Pagina 28
... letters , it is said , contain proofs that he was devotedly attached to her . Almost immediately after the marriage , Clive embarked with his bride for England . He returned a very different person from the poor slighted boy who had ...
... letters , it is said , contain proofs that he was devotedly attached to her . Almost immediately after the marriage , Clive embarked with his bride for England . He returned a very different person from the poor slighted boy who had ...
Pagina 38
... letters to his nominal sovereign at Delhi , describing the late conquest in the most pompous language . He placed a garrison in Fort William , forbade any Englishman to dwell in the neighbour- hood , and directed that , in memory of his ...
... letters to his nominal sovereign at Delhi , describing the late conquest in the most pompous language . He placed a garrison in Fort William , forbade any Englishman to dwell in the neighbour- hood , and directed that , in memory of his ...
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