Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes. 4Tauchnitz, 1850 - 349 pagina's |
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... 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 empire ...
... 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 empire ...
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... Company was not , as now , to conduct the judicial , financial , and diplomatic business of a great country , but to ... Company's settlements . In the preceding century , Fort St. George had arisen on a barren spot beaten by a raging ...
... Company was not , as now , to conduct the judicial , financial , and diplomatic business of a great country , but to ... Company's settlements . In the preceding century , Fort St. George had arisen on a barren spot beaten by a raging ...
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... Company . Clive's voyage was unusually tedious even for that age . The ship remained some months at the Brazils , where the young adventurer picked up some knowledge of Portuguese and spent all his pocket - money . He did not arrive in ...
... Company . Clive's voyage was unusually tedious even for that age . The ship remained some months at the Brazils , where the young adventurer picked up some knowledge of Portuguese and spent all his pocket - money . He did not arrive in ...
Pagina 8
... Company's warehouses were seized as prize of war by the conquerors . It was stipulated by the capitulation that the English inhabitants should be prisoners of war on pa- role , and that the town should remain in the hands of the French ...
... Company's warehouses were seized as prize of war by the conquerors . It was stipulated by the capitulation that the English inhabitants should be prisoners of war on pa- role , and that the town should remain in the hands of the French ...
Pagina 9
... Company . The Governor and several of the first gentlemen of Fort St. George were carried under a guard to Pondicherry , and con- ducted through the town in a triumphal procession under the eyes of fifty thousand spectators . It was ...
... Company . The Governor and several of the first gentlemen of Fort St. George were carried under a guard to Pondicherry , and con- ducted through the town in a triumphal procession under the eyes of fifty thousand spectators . It was ...
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