Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 3Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 |
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... regarded a horse- soldier as a monster , half man and half beast , who took 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 ...
... regarded a horse- soldier as a monster , half man and half beast , who took 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 ...
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... into 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 .
... into 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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... regarded him with slavish awe . On one occasion , the Nabob spoke with severity to a native chief of high rank ... regarded him as the only man who could force Meer Jaffier to keep his engagements with them . Meer Jaffier regarded him as ...
... regarded him with slavish awe . On one occasion , the Nabob spoke with severity to a native chief of high rank ... regarded him as the only man who could force Meer Jaffier to keep his engagements with them . Meer Jaffier regarded him as ...
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... regarded with so much uneasiness by the court of Moorshedabad , melted away before the mere terror of the British name . The conqueror returned in triumph to Fort William . The joy of Meer Jaffier was as unbounded as his fears had been ...
... regarded with so much uneasiness by the court of Moorshedabad , melted away before the mere terror of the British name . The conqueror returned in triumph to Fort William . The joy of Meer Jaffier was as unbounded as his fears had been ...
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... regarded as the personification of all the vices and weaknesses which the public , with or without reason , ascribed to the English adventurers in Asia . We have ourselves heard old men , who knew nothing of his history , but who still ...
... regarded as the personification of all the vices and weaknesses which the public , with or without reason , ascribed to the English adventurers in Asia . We have ourselves heard old men , who knew nothing of his history , but who still ...
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