Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, 3. kötetLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 |
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46. oldal
... thing to engage an army twenty times as numerous as his own . Before him lay a river over which it was easy to ad- vance , but over which , if things went ill , not one of his little band would ever return . On this occasion , for the ...
... thing to engage an army twenty times as numerous as his own . Before him lay a river over which it was easy to ad- vance , but over which , if things went ill , not one of his little band would ever return . On this occasion , for the ...
47. oldal
... thing to the hazard , and gave orders that all should be in readiness for passing the river on the morrow . The river was passed ; and , at the close of a toilsome day's march , the army , long after sunset , took up its quarters in a ...
... thing to the hazard , and gave orders that all should be in readiness for passing the river on the morrow . The river was passed ; and , at the close of a toilsome day's march , the army , long after sunset , took up its quarters in a ...
56. oldal
... wrong . On the contrary , he avowed with the greatest openness that the Nabob's bounty had raised him to affluence . Lastly , though we think that he ought not in such a way to have taken any thing , we must admit 56 LORD CLIVE .
... wrong . On the contrary , he avowed with the greatest openness that the Nabob's bounty had raised him to affluence . Lastly , though we think that he ought not in such a way to have taken any thing , we must admit 56 LORD CLIVE .
57. oldal
... thing , we must admit that he deserves praise for having taken so little . He ac- cepted twenty lacs of rupees . It ... things were in this state a ship arrived with despatches which had been written at the India House before the news of ...
... thing , we must admit that he deserves praise for having taken so little . He ac- cepted twenty lacs of rupees . It ... things were in this state a ship arrived with despatches which had been written at the India House before the news of ...
76. oldal
... thing to en- counter the resistance of those who held the power of the sword , in a country governed only by the sword . Two hundred English officers engaged in a conspiracy against the government , and determined to resign their ...
... thing to en- counter the resistance of those who held the power of the sword , in a country governed only by the sword . Two hundred English officers engaged in a conspiracy against the government , and determined to resign their ...
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