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Pagina 10
... fortune or to die of a fever at Madras . Far different were the prospects of Clive from those of the youths whom the East India College now annually sends to the presidencies of our Asiatic empire . The Company was then purely a trading ...
... fortune or to die of a fever at Madras . Far different were the prospects of Clive from those of the youths whom the East India College now annually sends to the presidencies of our Asiatic empire . The Company was then purely a trading ...
Pagina 11
... fortunes . Madras , to which Clive had been appointed , was at this time , perhaps , the first in importance of the Company's settlements . In the preceding century , Fort St. George had arisen on a bar- ren spot beaten by a raging surf ...
... fortunes . Madras , to which Clive had been appointed , was at this time , perhaps , the first in importance of the Company's settlements . In the preceding century , Fort St. George had arisen on a bar- ren spot beaten by a raging surf ...
Pagina 17
... fortune and genius of England . It was under the reign of Aurungzebe that this wild clan of plunderers first descended from their mountains ; and soon after his death every corner of his wide empire learned to tremble III . - 2 LORD ...
... fortune and genius of England . It was under the reign of Aurungzebe that this wild clan of plunderers first descended from their mountains ; and soon after his death every corner of his wide empire learned to tremble III . - 2 LORD ...
Pagina 21
... fortune seemed to have prevailed every- where . Nazir Jung perished by the hands of his own follow- ers ; Mirzapha Jung was master of the Deccan ; and the tri- umph of French arms and French policy was complete . At Pondicherry all was ...
... fortune seemed to have prevailed every- where . Nazir Jung perished by the hands of his own follow- ers ; Mirzapha Jung was master of the Deccan ; and the tri- umph of French arms and French policy was complete . At Pondicherry all was ...
Pagina 23
... fortune . Clive was now twenty - five years old . After hesitating for some time between a military and a commercial life , he had at length been placed in a post which partook of both char- acters - that of commissary to the troops ...
... fortune . Clive was now twenty - five years old . After hesitating for some time between a military and a commercial life , he had at length been placed in a post which partook of both char- acters - that of commissary to the troops ...
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Miscellaneous Works of Lord Macaulay, Volume 3 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Volledige weergave - 1880 |
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Addison admiration appeared army Barère Barère's became Benares Bengal Burke Bute Calcutta called character chief Clive Company Congreve Country Wife court crimes death Duke Dupleix eloquence enemies England English Europe fame favor feeling force fortune France Frances Burney Frederic French friends genius George George Grenville Girondists Governor-general Grenville hand Hastings head Hippolyte Carnot honor House of Bourbon House of Commons hundred India Jacobin justice King letters literary lived Lord Lord Holland Lord Rockingham means Meer Jaffier ment military mind ministers Miss Burney morality Nabob nation native nature never Nuncomar Omichund opinion Parliament party passed person Pitt poet political Pope prince Prussia Queen Robespierre royal scarcely seemed sent Silesia soldiers soon spirit strong talents thought thousand pounds tion took Tories troops truth verses victory Voltaire vote Whig whole write Wycherley
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