Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes. 4Tauchnitz, 1850 - 349 pagina's |
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... possessed by Mr. Richard Clive , who seems to have been a plain man of no great tact or capa- city . He had been bred to the law , and divided his time between professional business and the avocations of a small proprietor . He married ...
... possessed by Mr. Richard Clive , who seems to have been a plain man of no great tact or capa- city . He had been bred to the law , and divided his time between professional business and the avocations of a small proprietor . He married ...
Pagina 7
... possessed a good library , and permitted Clive to have access to it . The young man devoted much of his leisure to reading , and acquired at this time almost all the knowledge of books that he ever possessed . As a boy he had been too ...
... possessed a good library , and permitted Clive to have access to it . The young man devoted much of his leisure to reading , and acquired at this time almost all the knowledge of books that he ever possessed . As a boy he had been too ...
Pagina 14
... possessing in India only a few acres for purposes of commerce , would , in less than a hundred years , spread its em- pire from Cape Comorin to the eternal snow of the Hima- layas ; would compel Mahratta and Mahommedan to forget their ...
... possessing in India only a few acres for purposes of commerce , would , in less than a hundred years , spread its em- pire from Cape Comorin to the eternal snow of the Hima- layas ; would compel Mahratta and Mahommedan to forget their ...
Pagina 75
... possessed extra- ordinary influence , stood by him with unshaken fidelity . The leaders in the plot were arrested , tried , and cashiered . The rest , humbled and dispirited , begged to be permitted to with- draw their resignations ...
... possessed extra- ordinary influence , stood by him with unshaken fidelity . The leaders in the plot were arrested , tried , and cashiered . The rest , humbled and dispirited , begged to be permitted to with- draw their resignations ...
Pagina 76
... Byzantium a commission appointing him ruler of Italy ; and Clive , in the same manner , applied to the Court of Delhi for a formal grant of the powers of which he already possessed the reality . The Mogul 76 LORD CLIVE .
... Byzantium a commission appointing him ruler of Italy ; and Clive , in the same manner , applied to the Court of Delhi for a formal grant of the powers of which he already possessed the reality . The Mogul 76 LORD CLIVE .
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