Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes. 4Tauchnitz, 1850 - 349 pagina's |
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... council . The Clives had been settled , ever since the twelfth century , on an estate of no great value , near Market - Drayton , in Shropshire . In the reign of George the First , this moderate but ancient inheritance was possessed by ...
... council . The Clives had been settled , ever since the twelfth century , on an estate of no great value , near Market - Drayton , in Shropshire . In the reign of George the First , this moderate but ancient inheritance was possessed by ...
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... council of war . The majority pro- nounced against fighting ; and Clive declared his concurrence with the majority . Long afterwards , he said that he had never called but one council of war , and that , if he had taken the advice of ...
... council of war . The majority pro- nounced against fighting ; and Clive declared his concurrence with the majority . Long afterwards , he said that he had never called but one council of war , and that , if he had taken the advice of ...
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... Council met , and Clive stated to them his full deter- mination to make a thorough reform , and to use for that pur- pose the whole of the ample authority , civil and military , which had been confided to him . Johnstone , one of the ...
... Council met , and Clive stated to them his full deter- mination to make a thorough reform , and to use for that pur- pose the whole of the ample authority , civil and military , which had been confided to him . Johnstone , one of the ...
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... Council was only three hundred pounds a year . Yet it was notorious that such a functionary could not live in India for less than ten times that sum ; and it could not be expected that he would be content to live even handsomely in ...
... Council was only three hundred pounds a year . Yet it was notorious that such a functionary could not live in India for less than ten times that sum ; and it could not be expected that he would be content to live even handsomely in ...
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... councils of George the Third , had meditated a bold and sweeping mea- sure respecting the acquisitions of the Company . But his plans were rendered abortive by the strange malady which about that time began to overcloud his splendid ...
... councils of George the Third , had meditated a bold and sweeping mea- sure respecting the acquisitions of the Company . But his plans were rendered abortive by the strange malady which about that time began to overcloud his splendid ...
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