Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 3Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 |
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Pagina 4
... seemed hardly compatible with soundness of mind , had begun to cause great uneasiness to his family . " Fighting , " says one of his uncles , " to which he is out of measure addicted , gives his temper such a fierceness and ...
... seemed hardly compatible with soundness of mind , had begun to cause great uneasiness to his family . " Fighting , " says one of his uncles , " to which he is out of measure addicted , gives his temper such a fierceness and ...
Pagina 8
... seemed likely to destroy all his hopes in life suddenly opened before him a new path to eminence . Europe had been , during some years , distracted by the war of the Austrian succession . George the Second was the steady ally of Maria ...
... seemed likely to destroy all his hopes in life suddenly opened before him a new path to eminence . Europe had been , during some years , distracted by the war of the Austrian succession . George the Second was the steady ally of Maria ...
Pagina 14
... seemed improbable . But scarcely any man , however sagacious , would have thought it possible that a trading company , separated from India by fifteen thousand miles of sea , and possessing in India only a few acres for purposes of ...
... seemed improbable . But scarcely any man , however sagacious , would have thought it possible that a trading company , separated from India by fifteen thousand miles of sea , and possessing in India only a few acres for purposes of ...
Pagina 17
... seemed to have prevailed every where . Nazir Jung perished by the hands of his own followers ; Mirzapha Jung was master of the Deccan ; and the triumph of French arms and French policy was complete . At Pondicherry all was exultation ...
... seemed to have prevailed every where . Nazir Jung perished by the hands of his own followers ; Mirzapha Jung was master of the Deccan ; and the triumph of French arms and French policy was complete . At Pondicherry all was exultation ...
Pagina 19
... seemed im- possible . The small force which was then at Madras had no commander . Major Lawrence had returned to England ; and not a single officer of established character remained in the settlement . The natives had learned to look ...
... seemed im- possible . The small force which was then at Madras had no commander . Major Lawrence had returned to England ; and not a single officer of established character remained in the settlement . The natives had learned to look ...
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