Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 3Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 |
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... strong passions and tried by strong temptations , committed great faults . But every per- son who takes a fair and enlightened view of his whole career must admit that our island , so fertile in heroes and statesmen , has scarcely ever ...
... strong passions and tried by strong temptations , committed great faults . But every per- son who takes a fair and enlightened view of his whole career must admit that our island , so fertile in heroes and statesmen , has scarcely ever ...
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... strong will and his fiery passions , sus- tained by a constitutional intrepidity which sometimes seemed hardly compatible with soundness of mind , had begun to cause great uneasiness to his family . " Fighting , " says one of his uncles ...
... strong will and his fiery passions , sus- tained by a constitutional intrepidity which sometimes seemed hardly compatible with soundness of mind , had begun to cause great uneasiness to his family . " Fighting , " says one of his uncles ...
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... , determined to send a strong detachment , under Clive , to reinforce the garrison of Trichinopoly . But just at this conjuncture , Major Lawrence arrived 1 from England , and assumed the chief command . From LORD CLIVE . 25.
... , determined to send a strong detachment , under Clive , to reinforce the garrison of Trichinopoly . But just at this conjuncture , Major Lawrence arrived 1 from England , and assumed the chief command . From LORD CLIVE . 25.
Pagina 28
... strong detachment was marching to relieve it from Ching- leput . He took measures to prevent the enemy from learning that they were too late , laid an ambuscade for them on the road , killed a hundred of them with one fire , took three ...
... strong detachment was marching to relieve it from Ching- leput . He took measures to prevent the enemy from learning that they were too late , laid an ambuscade for them on the road , killed a hundred of them with one fire , took three ...
Pagina 32
... . The first service on which he was employed after his return to the East was the reduction of the strong- hold of Gheriah . This fortress , built on a craggy promontory , and almost surrounded by the ocean , was 32 LORD CLIVE .
... . The first service on which he was employed after his return to the East was the reduction of the strong- hold of Gheriah . This fortress , built on a craggy promontory , and almost surrounded by the ocean , was 32 LORD CLIVE .
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