Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 3Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 |
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Pagina 3
... effect of the book , even when we make the largest allowance for the partiality of those who have furnished and of those who have digested the ma- terials , is , on the whole , greatly to raise the character of Lord Clive . We are far ...
... effect of the book , even when we make the largest allowance for the partiality of those who have furnished and of those who have digested the ma- terials , is , on the whole , greatly to raise the character of Lord Clive . We are far ...
Pagina 11
... effect , was hastening to dissolution . After his death , which took place in the year 1707 , the ruin was fearfully rapid . Violent shocks from without co - operated with an incurable decay which was fast proceeding within ; and in a ...
... effect , was hastening to dissolution . After his death , which took place in the year 1707 , the ruin was fearfully rapid . Violent shocks from without co - operated with an incurable decay which was fast proceeding within ; and in a ...
Pagina 23
... effect of mental excitement . They believe that whoever , during this festival , falls in arms against the infidels , atones by his death for all the sins of his life , and passes at once to the garden of the Houris . It was at this ...
... effect of mental excitement . They believe that whoever , during this festival , falls in arms against the infidels , atones by his death for all the sins of his life , and passes at once to the garden of the Houris . It was at this ...
Pagina 25
... effect of this languor was that in no long time Rajah Sahib , at the head of a considerable army , in which were four hundred French troops , appeared almost under the guns of Fort St. George and laid waste the villas and gardens of the ...
... effect of this languor was that in no long time Rajah Sahib , at the head of a considerable army , in which were four hundred French troops , appeared almost under the guns of Fort St. George and laid waste the villas and gardens of the ...
Pagina 40
... effect , with eminent ability and valour , the plans of others . Henceforth he is to be chiefly regarded as a statesman ; and his military movements are to be considered as subordinate to his political 40 LORD CLIVE .
... effect , with eminent ability and valour , the plans of others . Henceforth he is to be chiefly regarded as a statesman ; and his military movements are to be considered as subordinate to his political 40 LORD CLIVE .
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