Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, 3. kötetLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 |
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4. oldal
... gives his temper such a fierceness and imperiousness , that he flies out on every trifling occasion . " The old people of the neighbourhood still remember to have heard from their parents how Bob Clive climbed to the top of the lofty ...
... gives his temper such a fierceness and imperiousness , that he flies out on every trifling occasion . " The old people of the neighbourhood still remember to have heard from their parents how Bob Clive climbed to the top of the lofty ...
40. oldal
... give compensation to those whom he had despoiled . A Clive's profession was war ; and he felt that there was something discreditable in an accommodation with Surajah Dowlah . But his power was limited . committee , chiefly composed of ...
... give compensation to those whom he had despoiled . A Clive's profession was war ; and he felt that there was something discreditable in an accommodation with Surajah Dowlah . But his power was limited . committee , chiefly composed of ...
41. oldal
... give any promise with- out hesitation and break any promise without shame , with men who would unscrupulously employ corrup tion , perjury , forgery , to compass their ends . His letters show that the great difference between Asiatic ...
... give any promise with- out hesitation and break any promise without shame , with men who would unscrupulously employ corrup tion , perjury , forgery , to compass their ends . His letters show that the great difference between Asiatic ...
52. oldal
... fidence which is produced by the " yea , yea , " and nay , nay , " of a British envoy . No fastness , how- ever strong by art or nature , gives to its inmates a 66 security like that enjoyed by the chief who , passing 52 LORD CLIVE .
... fidence which is produced by the " yea , yea , " and nay , nay , " of a British envoy . No fastness , how- ever strong by art or nature , gives to its inmates a 66 security like that enjoyed by the chief who , passing 52 LORD CLIVE .
55. oldal
... give and receive pre- sents ; and there was , as yet , no Act of Parliament positively prohibiting English functionaries in India from profiting by this Asiatic usage . This reasoning , we own , does not quite satisfy us . We do not ...
... give and receive pre- sents ; and there was , as yet , no Act of Parliament positively prohibiting English functionaries in India from profiting by this Asiatic usage . This reasoning , we own , does not quite satisfy us . We do not ...
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