Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 3Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 |
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... written in our language , has never been very popular , and is now scarcely ever read . We fear that the volumes before us will not much attract those readers whom Orme and Mill have re- pelled . The materials placed at the disposal of ...
... written in our language , has never been very popular , and is now scarcely ever read . We fear that the volumes before us will not much attract those readers whom Orme and Mill have re- pelled . The materials placed at the disposal of ...
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... 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.
... 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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... 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 seemed ...
... 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 seemed ...
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... written at the India House before the news of the battle of Plassey had reached London . The Directors had determined to place the English settlements in Bengal under a government constituted in the most cumbrous and absurd manner ; and ...
... written at the India House before the news of the battle of Plassey had reached London . The Directors had determined to place the English settlements in Bengal under a government constituted in the most cumbrous and absurd manner ; and ...
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... written im- mediately after his landing to an intimate friend , he poured out his feelings in language which , proceeding from a man so daring , so resolute , and so little given to theatrical display of sentiment , seems to us sin ...
... written im- mediately after his landing to an intimate friend , he poured out his feelings in language which , proceeding from a man so daring , so resolute , and so little given to theatrical display of sentiment , seems to us sin ...
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