Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, المجلد 2Estes and Lauriat, 1880 |
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... CLIVE ( Edinburgh Review , January , 1840. ) VON RANKE ( Edinburgh Review , October , 1840. ) LEIGH HUNT ( Edinburgh Review , January , 1841. ) . LORD HOLLAND ( Edinburgh Review , July , 1841. ) WARREN HASTINGS ( Edinburgh Review ...
... CLIVE ( Edinburgh Review , January , 1840. ) VON RANKE ( Edinburgh Review , October , 1840. ) LEIGH HUNT ( Edinburgh Review , January , 1841. ) . LORD HOLLAND ( Edinburgh Review , July , 1841. ) WARREN HASTINGS ( Edinburgh Review ...
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... Clive , Pondicherry to Coote . Throughout Bengal , Bahar , Orissa and the Carnatic , the authority of the East India Company was more absolute than that of Acbar or Aurungzebe had ever been . On the continent of Europe the odds were ...
... Clive , Pondicherry to Coote . Throughout Bengal , Bahar , Orissa and the Carnatic , the authority of the East India Company was more absolute than that of Acbar or Aurungzebe had ever been . On the continent of Europe the odds were ...
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... CLIVE . * ( Edinburgh Review , January , 1840. ) WE have always thought it strange , that while the his- tory of the Spanish empire in America is familiarly known to all the nations of Europe , the great actions of our coun- trymen in ...
... CLIVE . * ( Edinburgh Review , January , 1840. ) WE have always thought it strange , that while the his- tory of the Spanish empire in America is familiarly known to all the nations of Europe , the great actions of our coun- trymen in ...
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... if the author had lived to complete and revise it , would probably have been improved by condensation and by a better arrangement . We are the more disposed to per form the pleasing duty of expressing our gratitude to the LORD CLIVE . 891.
... if the author had lived to complete and revise it , would probably have been improved by condensation and by a better arrangement . We are the more disposed to per form the pleasing duty of expressing our gratitude to the LORD CLIVE . 891.
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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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الصفحة 466 - Antioch, when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca. 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.
الصفحة 645 - I impeach him in the name of the English nation, whose ancient honor he has sullied. I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose rights he has trodden under foot, and whose country he has turned into a desert. Lastly, in the name of human nature itself, in the name of both sexes, in the name of every age, in the name of every rank, I impeach the common enemy and oppressor of all !" When the deep murmur of various emotions had subsided, Mr.
الصفحة 200 - Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer, Though the herd have fled from thee, thy home is still here; Here still is the smile, that no cloud can o'ercast, And a heart and a hand all thy own to the last. Oh! what was love made for, if 'tis not the same Through joy and through torment, through glory and shame...
الصفحة 552 - ... that venerable chamber, in which all the antique gravity of a college library was so singularly blended with all that female grace and wit could devise to embellish a drawingroom. They will recollect, not unmoved, those shelves loaded with the varied learning of many lands and many ages, and those portraits in which were preserved the features of the best and wisest Englishmen of two generations.
الصفحة 132 - Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, assembled at Westminster, do resolve that William and Mary, Prince and Princess of Orange, be, and be declared, king and queen of England...
الصفحة 317 - Of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies.
الصفحة 211 - My conceit of his person was never increased towards him by his place or honours; but I have and do reverence him for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed God would give him strength, for greatness he could not want.
الصفحة 144 - Time glides on ; fortune is inconstant ; tempers are soured; bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation, or by caprice. But no such cause can affect the silent converse which we hold with the highest of human intellects.
الصفحة 252 - Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
الصفحة 552 - O'er my dim eyeballs glance the sudden tears ? How sweet were once thy prospects fresh and fair, Thy sloping walks and unpolluted air ? How sweet the glooms beneath...