Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 3Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 |
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... 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 . III . B numerous as the Americans whom the Spaniards vanquished , and.
... 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 . III . B numerous as the Americans whom the Spaniards vanquished , and.
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... took the opposite side . Though England was even then the first of maritime powers , she was not , as she has since become , more than a match on the sea for all the nations of the world together ; and she found it difficult to maintain ...
... took the opposite side . Though England was even then the first of maritime powers , she was not , as she has since become , more than a match on the sea for all the nations of the world together ; and she found it difficult to maintain ...
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... took place which de- cided his choice . The politics of India assumed a new aspect . There was peace between the English and French Crowns ; but there arose between the English and French Companies trading to the East a war most ...
... took place which de- cided his choice . The politics of India assumed a new aspect . There was peace between the English and French Crowns ; but there arose between the English and French Companies trading to the East a war most ...
Pagina 11
... 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 few years the empire had undergone utter decomposition . The ...
... 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 few years the empire had undergone utter decomposition . The ...
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... The situation of India was such that scarcely any aggression could be without a pretext , either in old laws or in recent practice . All rights were in a state of utter uncertainty ; and the Europeans who took LORD CLIVE . 15.
... The situation of India was such that scarcely any aggression could be without a pretext , either in old laws or in recent practice . All rights were in a state of utter uncertainty ; and the Europeans who took LORD CLIVE . 15.
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