Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, 4. kötetTauchnitz, 1850 - 349 oldal |
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13. oldal
... rule was wasted by their incursions . Wherever their kettle- drums were heard , the peasant threw his bag of rice on his shoulder , hid his small savings in his girdle , and fled with his wife and children to the mountains or the ...
... rule was wasted by their incursions . Wherever their kettle- drums were heard , the peasant threw his bag of rice on his shoulder , hid his small savings in his girdle , and fled with his wife and children to the mountains or the ...
17. oldal
... rule under their names the whole of southern India ; this was indeed an attractive prospect . He allied himself with the pretenders , and sent four hundred French soldiers , and two thousand sepoys , dis- ciplined after the European ...
... rule under their names the whole of southern India ; this was indeed an attractive prospect . He allied himself with the pretenders , and sent four hundred French soldiers , and two thousand sepoys , dis- ciplined after the European ...
19. oldal
... rule them . They had seen the French colours flying on Fort St. George ; they had seen the chiefs of the English factory led in triumph through the streets of Pondi- cherry ; they had seen the arms and counsels of Dupleix everywhere ...
... rule them . They had seen the French colours flying on Fort St. George ; they had seen the chiefs of the English factory led in triumph through the streets of Pondi- cherry ; they had seen the arms and counsels of Dupleix everywhere ...
26. oldal
... rules . " Some people , ” he wrote , " are pleased to term Captain Clive fortunate and lucky ; but , in my opinion , from the knowledge I have of the gentleman , he deserved and might expect from his conduct every thing as it fell out ...
... rules . " Some people , ” he wrote , " are pleased to term Captain Clive fortunate and lucky ; but , in my opinion , from the knowledge I have of the gentleman , he deserved and might expect from his conduct every thing as it fell out ...
51. oldal
... rule is subject to still fewer exceptions , and that , for this reason , that the life of societies is longer than the life of individuals . It is possible to mention men who have owed great worldly prosperity to breaches of private ...
... rule is subject to still fewer exceptions , and that , for this reason , that the life of societies is longer than the life of individuals . It is possible to mention men who have owed great worldly prosperity to breaches of private ...
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accused appeared army authority Benares Bengal British Burke Calcutta Carnatic Catholic century character charge Cheyte Sing chief Church of Rome Clive command Company Congreve Council Country Wife court Daylesford defence doctrine Dupleix East empire enemies England English Europe European favour feeling force Fort St Fort William fortune Francis French friends functionaries gentleman Gleig government of Bengal Governor Governor-General hand Hastings Hindoo honour hundred impeachment Impey India judges justice Leigh Hunt letters Lord Holland Macaulay Madras Mahommed Mahratta Meer Jaffier ment military mind minister Mogul Moorshedabad morality Munny Begum Nabob nation native never Nuncomar Omichund Oude Parliament passed person Pitt poet political princes Protestant Protestantism province Rajah Reformation Rohilla scarcely seemed sent sepoys servants soldiers soon spirit strong Surajah Dowlah talents thing thousand pounds tion took triumph troops truth victory vote Warren Hastings whole Wycherley