Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, 4. kötetTauchnitz, 1850 - 349 oldal |
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... known to all the nations of Europe , the great actions of our countrymen in the East should , even among ourselves , excite little inter- est . Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma , and who strangled Atahualpa . But we doubt ...
... known to all the nations of Europe , the great actions of our countrymen in the East should , even among ourselves , excite little inter- est . Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma , and who strangled Atahualpa . But we doubt ...
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... known in England as the Nabob of Arcot , and who owes to the elo- quence of Burke a most unenviable immortality , fled with a scanty remnant of his army to Trichinopoly ; and the con- querors became at once masters of almost every part ...
... known in England as the Nabob of Arcot , and who owes to the elo- quence of Burke a most unenviable immortality , fled with a scanty remnant of his army to Trichinopoly ; and the con- querors became at once masters of almost every part ...
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... known at the India House by the honourable nickname of General Clive , and was toasted by that appellation at the feasts of the Directors . On his ar- rival in England , he found himself an object of general in- terest and admiration ...
... known at the India House by the honourable nickname of General Clive , and was toasted by that appellation at the feasts of the Directors . On his ar- rival in England , he found himself an object of general in- terest and admiration ...
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... known through the East as the garden of Eden , as the rich kingdom . Its population multiplied exceedingly . Distant provinces were nourished from the overflowing of its grana- ries ; and the noble ladies of London and Paris were ...
... known through the East as the garden of Eden , as the rich kingdom . Its population multiplied exceedingly . Distant provinces were nourished from the overflowing of its grana- ries ; and the noble ladies of London and Paris were ...
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... known by the fearful name of the Black Hole . Even for a single European malefactor , that dungeon would , in such a climate , have been too close and narrow . The space was only twenty feet square . The air - holes were small and ob ...
... known by the fearful name of the Black Hole . Even for a single European malefactor , that dungeon would , in such a climate , have been too close and narrow . The space was only twenty feet square . The air - holes were small and ob ...
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