Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 3Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 |
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... a harquebusier for a sorcerer , able to scatter the thunder and lightning of the skies . The people of India , when we subdued them , were ten times as VOL . III . B numerous as the Americans whom the Spaniards vanquished , and.
... a harquebusier for a sorcerer , able to scatter the thunder and lightning of the skies . The people of India , when we subdued them , were ten times as VOL . III . B numerous as the Americans whom the Spaniards vanquished , and.
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... India , was born at the old seat of his ancestors on the twenty - ninth of September , 1725 . Some lineaments of the character of the man were early discerned in the child . There remain letters written B 2 LORD CLIVE . 3.
... India , was born at the old seat of his ancestors on the twenty - ninth of September , 1725 . Some lineaments of the character of the man were early discerned in the child . There remain letters written B 2 LORD CLIVE . 3.
Pagina 4
... India 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 ...
... India 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 ...
Pagina 6
... Indian was then much more estranged from his country , much more addicted to Oriental usages , and much less fitted to ... India till more than a year after he had left England . His situation at Madras was most painful . His funds were ...
... Indian was then much more estranged from his country , much more addicted to Oriental usages , and much less fitted to ... India till more than a year after he had left England . His situation at Madras was most painful . His funds were ...
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... India in spite of the opposition of the British fleet , landed , assembled an army , appeared before Madras , and compelled the town and fort to capitulate . The keys were delivered up ; the French colours were displayed on Fort St ...
... India in spite of the opposition of the British fleet , landed , assembled an army , appeared before Madras , and compelled the town and fort to capitulate . The keys were delivered up ; the French colours were displayed on Fort St ...
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