Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 3Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 |
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Pagina 32
... Parliament and straitened in his means , he naturally began to look again towards India . The Company and the Government were eager to avail themselves of his services . A treaty favour- able to England had indeed been concluded in the ...
... Parliament and straitened in his means , he naturally began to look again towards India . The Company and the Government were eager to avail themselves of his services . A treaty favour- able to England had indeed been concluded in the ...
Pagina 41
... Parliament amidst which his later years were passed , his very faults were those of a high and magnanimous spirit . The truth seems to have been that he considered Oriental politics as a game in which nothing was unfair . He knew that ...
... Parliament amidst which his later years were passed , his very faults were those of a high and magnanimous spirit . The truth seems to have been that he considered Oriental politics as a game in which nothing was unfair . He knew that ...
Pagina 55
... Parliament . They are vehemently defended by Sir John Malcolm . The accusers of the victorious general represented his gains as the wages of corruption , or as plunder ex- torted at the point of the sword from a helpless ally . The ...
... Parliament . They are vehemently defended by Sir John Malcolm . The accusers of the victorious general represented his gains as the wages of corruption , or as plunder ex- torted at the point of the sword from a helpless ally . The ...
Pagina 62
... Parliament described Clive as a heaven- born general , as a man who , bred to the labour of the desk , had displayed a military genius which might excite the admiration of the King of Prussia . There were then no reporters in the ...
... Parliament described Clive as a heaven- born general , as a man who , bred to the labour of the desk , had displayed a military genius which might excite the admiration of the King of Prussia . There were then no reporters in the ...
Pagina 64
... parliamentary interest . His purchases of land seem to have been made in a great measure with that view , and , after the general election of 1761 , he found himself in the House of Commons , at the head of a body of depend- ents whose ...
... parliamentary interest . His purchases of land seem to have been made in a great measure with that view , and , after the general election of 1761 , he found himself in the House of Commons , at the head of a body of depend- ents whose ...
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