Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 4Tauchnitz, 1850 - 349 pagina's |
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Pagina 5
... more profuse , luxurious , and ostentatious , than those of the high judicial and political functionaries who have succeeded them . But comfort was far less understood . Many devices which now mitigate the heat of the climate LORD CLIVE .
... more profuse , luxurious , and ostentatious , than those of the high judicial and political functionaries who have succeeded them . But comfort was far less understood . Many devices which now mitigate the heat of the climate LORD CLIVE .
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... politics of India assumed a new aspect . There was peace between the English and French Crowns ; but there arose between the English and French Companies trading to the East a war most eventful and important , a war in which the prize ...
... politics of India assumed a new aspect . There was peace between the English and French Crowns ; but there arose between the English and French Companies trading to the East a war most eventful and important , a war in which the prize ...
Pagina 15
... part in the disputes of the natives confounded the confusion , by applying to Asiatic politics the public law of the West and analogies drawn from the feudal system . If it was convenient to treat a Nabob LORD CLIVE . 15.
... part in the disputes of the natives confounded the confusion , by applying to Asiatic politics the public law of the West and analogies drawn from the feudal system . If it was convenient to treat a Nabob LORD CLIVE . 15.
Pagina 40
... political designs . That in his new capa- city he displayed great talents , and obtained great success , is unquestionable . But it is also unquestionable , that the transactions in which he now began to take a part have left a stain on ...
... political designs . That in his new capa- city he displayed great talents , and obtained great success , is unquestionable . But it is also unquestionable , that the transactions in which he now began to take a part have left a stain on ...
Pagina 41
... politics as a game in which nothing was unfair . He knew that the standard of morality among the natives of India differed widely from that established in England . He knew that he had to deal with men destitute of what in Europe is ...
... politics as a game in which nothing was unfair . He knew that the standard of morality among the natives of India differed widely from that established in England . He knew that he had to deal with men destitute of what in Europe is ...
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