Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 3Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 |
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... letters , who were ignorant of the use of metals , who had not broken in a single animal to labour , who wielded no better weapons than those which could be made out of sticks , flints , and fish - bones , who regarded a horse- soldier ...
... letters , who were ignorant of the use of metals , who had not broken in a single animal to labour , who wielded no better weapons than those which could be made out of sticks , flints , and fish - bones , who regarded a horse- soldier ...
Pagina 3
... in 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.
... in 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.
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... letters written by his relations when he was in his seventh year ; and from these letters it appears that , even at that early age , his strong will and his fiery passions , sus- tained by a constitutional intrepidity which sometimes ...
... letters written by his relations when he was in his seventh year ; and from these letters it appears that , even at that early age , his strong will and his fiery passions , sus- tained by a constitutional intrepidity which sometimes ...
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... letters of recommendation to a gentleman who might have assisted him ; but when he landed at Fort St. George he found that this gentleman had sailed for England . The lad's shy and haughty disposition with- held him from introducing ...
... letters of recommendation to a gentleman who might have assisted him ; but when he landed at Fort St. George he found that this gentleman had sailed for England . The lad's shy and haughty disposition with- held him from introducing ...
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... letters , it is said , contain proofs that he was devotedly attached to her . Almost immediately after the marriage , Clive em- barked with his bride for England . He returned a very different person from the poor slighted boy who had ...
... letters , it is said , contain proofs that he was devotedly attached to her . Almost immediately after the marriage , Clive em- barked with his bride for England . He returned a very different person from the poor slighted boy who had ...
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