Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, 3. kötetLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 |
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4. oldal
... seemed hardly compatible with soundness of mind , had begun to cause great uneasiness to his family . Fighting , " says one of his uncles , " to which he is out of measure addicted , gives his temper such a fierceness and imperiousness ...
... seemed hardly compatible with soundness of mind , had begun to cause great uneasiness to his family . Fighting , " says one of his uncles , " to which he is out of measure addicted , gives his temper such a fierceness and imperiousness ...
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... seemed likely to destroy all his hopes in life suddenly opened before him a new path to eminence . Europe had been , during some years , distracted by the war of the Austrian succession . George the Second was the steady ally of Maria ...
... seemed likely to destroy all his hopes in life suddenly opened before him a new path to eminence . Europe had been , during some years , distracted by the war of the Austrian succession . George the Second was the steady ally of Maria ...
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... seemed improbable . But scarcely any man , however sagacious , would have thought it possible that a trading company , separated from India by fifteen thousand miles of sea , and possessing in India only a few acres for purposes of ...
... seemed improbable . But scarcely any man , however sagacious , would have thought it possible that a trading company , separated from India by fifteen thousand miles of sea , and possessing in India only a few acres for purposes of ...
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... seemed to have prevailed every where . Nazir Jung perished by the hands of his own followers ; Mirzapha Jung was master of the Deccan ; and the triumph of French arms and French policy was complete . At Pondicherry all was exultation ...
... seemed to have prevailed every where . Nazir Jung perished by the hands of his own followers ; Mirzapha Jung was master of the Deccan ; and the triumph of French arms and French policy was complete . At Pondicherry all was exultation ...
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... seemed im- possible . The small force which was then at Madras had no commander . Major Lawrence had returned to England ; and not a single officer of established character remained in the settlement . The natives had learned to look ...
... seemed im- possible . The small force which was then at Madras had no commander . Major Lawrence had returned to England ; and not a single officer of established character remained in the settlement . The natives had learned to look ...
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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