Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, 3. kötetLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 |
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... France and Spain . In the eastern seas France obtained the ascendency . Labourdonnais , governor of Mauritius , a man of eminent talents and virtues , conducted an expedition to the continent of India in spite of the opposition of the ...
... France and Spain . In the eastern seas France obtained the ascendency . Labourdonnais , governor of Mauritius , a man of eminent talents and virtues , conducted an expedition to the continent of India in spite of the opposition of the ...
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... France . Dupleix was in consequence compelled to restore Madras to the En- glish Company ; and the young ensign was at liberty to resume his former business . He did indeed return for a short time to his desk . He again quitted it in ...
... France . Dupleix was in consequence compelled to restore Madras to the En- glish Company ; and the young ensign was at liberty to resume his former business . He did indeed return for a short time to his desk . He again quitted it in ...
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... France , with authority superior even to that of Chunda Sahib . He was intrusted with the command of seven thousand cavalry . It was announced that no mint would be suffered to exist in the Carnatic except that at Pondicherry . A large ...
... France , with authority superior even to that of Chunda Sahib . He was intrusted with the command of seven thousand cavalry . It was announced that no mint would be suffered to exist in the Carnatic except that at Pondicherry . A large ...
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... France in the East . Clive ordered both the city and the monument to be rased to the ground . He was in- duced , we believe , to take this step , not by personal or national malevolence , but by a just and profound policy . The town and ...
... France in the East . Clive ordered both the city and the monument to be rased to the ground . He was in- duced , we believe , to take this step , not by personal or national malevolence , but by a just and profound policy . The town and ...
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... France , at the court of that prince . Among the officers who remained with Dupleix , there was not a single man of capacity ; and many of them were boys , at whose ignorance and folly the common soldiers laughed . The English triumphed ...
... France , at the court of that prince . Among the officers who remained with Dupleix , there was not a single man of capacity ; and many of them were boys , at whose ignorance and folly the common soldiers laughed . The English triumphed ...
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Addison admiration appeared army authority began Benares Bengal British Burke Bute Calcutta called Catholic character Chatham chief Church Clive Company Congreve Council Country Wife court Daylesford Dowlah Duke Dupleix eloquence eminent empire enemies England English Europe fame favour favourite feeling fortune France Frances Burney French friends genius George George Grenville Governor Governor-General Grenville hand Hastings honour house of Bourbon House of Commons hundred impeachment India justice King lady letters literary lived London Lord Lord Holland Lord Rockingham Madame D'Arblay Mahrattas manner Meer Jaffier ment mind ministers Miss Burney morality Nabob native nature never Nuncomar Omichund Oude Parliament party passed person Pitt poet political Pope Price One Shilling princes Protestantism Rockingham Rohilla Rome scarcely seemed sent servants soon spirit strong talents thing thought thousand pounds tion took Tories truth vote Whig whole write Wycherley