Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volúmenes3-4A. C. Armstrong & Son, 1897 |
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... the English had founded a mighty em- pire . The French had been defeated in every part f India . Chandernagore had surrendered to Clive , Pondicherry to Coote . Throughout Bengal , Bahar , Orissa EARL OF CHATHAM . 245.
... the English had founded a mighty em- pire . The French had been defeated in every part f India . Chandernagore had surrendered to Clive , Pondicherry to Coote . Throughout Bengal , Bahar , Orissa EARL OF CHATHAM . 245.
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... Clive ; collected from the Family Paper communicated by the Earl of Powis . By MAJOR - GENERAL SIR JOH MALCOLM , K. C. B. 3 vols . 8vo . London : 1836 . quished , and were at the same time quite as LORD CLIVE (Edinburgh Review, January ...
... Clive ; collected from the Family Paper communicated by the Earl of Powis . By MAJOR - GENERAL SIR JOH MALCOLM , K. C. B. 3 vols . 8vo . London : 1836 . quished , and were at the same time quite as LORD CLIVE (Edinburgh Review, January ...
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... Mill have re- pelled . The materials placed at the disposal of Sir John Malcolm by the late Lord Powis were indeed of great value . But we cannot say that they have been very skilfully worked up . It would , however , be LORD CLIVE . 195.
... Mill have re- pelled . The materials placed at the disposal of Sir John Malcolm by the late Lord Powis were indeed of great value . But we cannot say that they have been very skilfully worked up . It would , however , be LORD CLIVE . 195.
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... Clive than in any other part of his valuable work . Clive , like most men who are born with strong passions and tried by strong temptations , committed great faults . But every person who takes a fair and enlightened view of his whole ...
... Clive than in any other part of his valuable work . Clive , like most men who are born with strong passions and tried by strong temptations , committed great faults . But every person who takes a fair and enlightened view of his whole ...
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... Clive climbed to the top of the lofty steeple of Market - Drayton , and with what terror the inhabitants saw him seated on a stone spout near the summit . They also relate how he formed all the idle lads of the town into a kind of ...
... Clive climbed to the top of the lofty steeple of Market - Drayton , and with what terror the inhabitants saw him seated on a stone spout near the summit . They also relate how he formed all the idle lads of the town into a kind of ...
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Página 292 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Página 309 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Página 308 - The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontiffs. That line we trace back in an unbroken series, from the Pope who crowned Napoleon in the nineteenth century to the Pope who crowned Pepin in the eighth; and far beyond the time of Pepin the august dynasty extends, till it is lost in the twilight of fable.
Página 86 - We very much doubt whether Lord Mahon can prove that the income which the Spanish government derived from the mines of America fluctuated more than the income derived from the internal taxes of Spain itself. All the causes of the decay of Spain resolve themselves into one cause, bad government.
Página 465 - To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. The aim of the Baconian philosophy was to provide man with what he requires while he continues to be man. The aim of the Platonic philosophy wa.s to raise us far above vulgar wants. The aim of the Baconian philosophy was to supply our vulgar wants. The former aim was noble ; but the latter was attainable.
Página 173 - Where the Church must needs have some ordained, and neither hath nor can have possibly a bishop to ordain, in case of such necessity the ordinary institution of God hath given oftentimes, and may give place. And therefore we are not simply without exception to urge a lineal descent of power from the Apostles by continued succession of bishops in every effectual ordination.
Página 358 - No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.