Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes. 4Tauchnitz, 1850 - 349 pagina's |
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... 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 . The Company was then • purely 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 . The Company was then • purely a ...
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... fortunes . Madras , to which Clive had been appointed , was , at this time , perhaps , the first in importance of the Company's settlements . In the preceding century , Fort St. George had arisen on a barren spot beaten by a raging surf ...
... fortunes . Madras , to which Clive had been appointed , was , at this time , perhaps , the first in importance of the Company's settlements . In the preceding century , Fort St. George had arisen on a barren spot beaten by a raging surf ...
Pagina 13
... fortune and genius of England . It was under the reign of Aurung- zebe that this wild clan of plunderers first descended from their mountains ; and soon after his death , every corner of his wide empire learned to tremble at the mighty ...
... fortune and genius of England . It was under the reign of Aurung- zebe that this wild clan of plunderers first descended from their mountains ; and soon after his death , every corner of his wide empire learned to tremble at the mighty ...
Pagina 17
... fortune seemed to have prevailed every where . Nazir Jung perished by the hands of his own followers ; Mirzapha Jung was master of the Deccan ; and the triumph of French arms and French policy was complete . At Pondicherry all was ...
... fortune seemed to have prevailed every where . Nazir Jung perished by the hands of his own followers ; Mirzapha Jung was master of the Deccan ; and the triumph of French arms and French policy was complete . At Pondicherry all was ...
Pagina 19
... fortune . Clive was now twenty - five years old . After hesitating for some time between a military and a commercial life , he had at length been placed in a post which partook of both characters , that of commissary to the troops ...
... fortune . Clive was now twenty - five years old . After hesitating for some time between a military and a commercial life , he had at length been placed in a post which partook of both characters , that of commissary to the troops ...
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