Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, 3. kötetLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 |
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... interest . Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma , and who strangled Atahualpa . But we doubt whether one in ten , even among English gentlemen of highly cultivated minds , can tell who won the battle of Buxar , who perpetrated ...
... interest . Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma , and who strangled Atahualpa . But we doubt whether one in ten , even among English gentlemen of highly cultivated minds , can tell who won the battle of Buxar , who perpetrated ...
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... interest in any part of history would be curious to know how a handful of his countrymen , separated from their home by an immense ocean , subjugated , in the course of a few years , one of the greatest empires in the world . Yet ...
... interest in any part of history would be curious to know how a handful of his countrymen , separated from their home by an immense ocean , subjugated , in the course of a few years , one of the greatest empires in the world . Yet ...
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... interests , invaded the Carnatic , and applied for assistance to the French , whose fame had been raised by their success against the English in the recent war on the coast of Coro- mandel . Nothing could have happened more pleasing to ...
... interests , invaded the Carnatic , and applied for assistance to the French , whose fame had been raised by their success against the English in the recent war on the coast of Coro- mandel . Nothing could have happened more pleasing to ...
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... interests , and those of 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 ...
... interests , and those of 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 ...
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... interest and admiration . The East India Company thanked him for his services in the warmest terms , and bestowed on him a sword set with diamonds . With rare delicacy , he refused to receive this token of gratitude unless a similar ...
... interest and admiration . The East India Company thanked him for his services in the warmest terms , and bestowed on him a sword set with diamonds . With rare delicacy , he refused to receive this token of gratitude unless a similar ...
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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