Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, 3. kötetLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 |
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15. oldal
... The situation of India was such that scarcely any aggression could be without a pretext , either in old laws or in recent practice . All rights were in a state of utter uncertainty ; and the Europeans who took LORD CLIVE . 15.
... The situation of India was such that scarcely any aggression could be without a pretext , either in old laws or in recent practice . All rights were in a state of utter uncertainty ; and the Europeans who took LORD CLIVE . 15.
18. oldal
... scarcely be any limit to his gains . He now ruled thirty millions of people with almost absolute power . No honour or emolument could be obtained from the government but by his intervention . No petition , unless signed by him , was ...
... scarcely be any limit to his gains . He now ruled thirty millions of people with almost absolute power . No honour or emolument could be obtained from the government but by his intervention . No petition , unless signed by him , was ...
30. oldal
... scarcely any formal opposition . The Jacobites had been cowed by the issue of the last rebellion . The Tory party had fallen into utter contempt . It had been deserted by all the men of talents who had belonged to it , and had scarcely ...
... scarcely any formal opposition . The Jacobites had been cowed by the issue of the last rebellion . The Tory party had fallen into utter contempt . It had been deserted by all the men of talents who had belonged to it , and had scarcely ...
34. oldal
... scarcely ever enlists as a soldier . We doubt whether there be a hundred genuine Bengalees in the whole army of the East India Company . There never , perhaps , existed a people so thoroughly fitted by nature and by habit for a foreign ...
... scarcely ever enlists as a soldier . We doubt whether there be a hundred genuine Bengalees in the whole army of the East India Company . There never , perhaps , existed a people so thoroughly fitted by nature and by habit for a foreign ...
37. oldal
... scarcely be rendered tolerable to natives of England by lofty halls and by the constant waving of fans . The number of the prisoners was one hundred and forty- six . When they were ordered to enter the cell , they imagined that the ...
... scarcely be rendered tolerable to natives of England by lofty halls and by the constant waving of fans . The number of the prisoners was one hundred and forty- six . When they were ordered to enter the cell , they imagined that the ...
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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