Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, 3. kötetLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 |
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46. oldal
... talents , and in the valour and discipline of his troops , it was no light 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 ...
... talents , and in the valour and discipline of his troops , it was no light 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 ...
57. oldal
... talents or virtues which his post required ; and his son and heir , Meeran , was another Surajah Dowlah . The recent revolution had unsettled the minds of men . Many chiefs were in open insurrection against the new Nabob . The viceroy ...
... talents or virtues which his post required ; and his son and heir , Meeran , was another Surajah Dowlah . The recent revolution had unsettled the minds of men . Many chiefs were in open insurrection against the new Nabob . The viceroy ...
58. oldal
... talents of a high order . The success of the expedition was rapid and splendid . While a considerable part of the army of Bengal was thus engaged at a distance , a new and formidable danger menaced the western frontier . The Great Mogul ...
... talents of a high order . The success of the expedition was rapid and splendid . While a considerable part of the army of Bengal was thus engaged at a distance , a new and formidable danger menaced the western frontier . The Great Mogul ...
66. oldal
... talents how- ever splendid or any connexions however powerful obtain those lucrative posts for any person who has not entered by the regular door , and mounted by the regular gradations . Seventy years ago , less money was brought home ...
... talents how- ever splendid or any connexions however powerful obtain those lucrative posts for any person who has not entered by the regular door , and mounted by the regular gradations . Seventy years ago , less money was brought home ...
82. oldal
... talents , and rendered great services to the state ; but at home their talents were not shown to advan- tage , and their services were little known . That they had sprung from obscurity , that they had acquired great wealth , that they ...
... talents , and rendered great services to the state ; but at home their talents were not shown to advan- tage , and their services were little known . That they had sprung from obscurity , that they had acquired great wealth , that they ...
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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