Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, 3. kötetLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 |
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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 interest . 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 interest . 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 eloquence of Burke a most unenviable immortality , fled with a scanty remnant of his army to Trichinopoly ; and the conquerors became at once masters of almost every part of ...
... known in England as the Nabob of Arcot , and who owes to the eloquence of Burke a most unenviable immortality , fled with a scanty remnant of his army to Trichinopoly ; and the conquerors became at once masters of almost every part of ...
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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 interest 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 interest and admiration ...
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... known . Spices , sugar , vegetable oils , are produced with marvellous exuberance . The rivers afford an inexhaustible supply of fish . The desolate islands along the sea - coast , overgrown by noxious vegetation , and swarming with ...
... known . Spices , sugar , vegetable oils , are produced with marvellous exuberance . The rivers afford an inexhaustible supply of fish . The desolate islands along the sea - coast , overgrown by noxious vegetation , and swarming with ...
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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 ...
... 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 ...
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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