Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1872 - 855 páginas |
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... Dupleix was in consequence compelled to restore Madras to the English Company ; and the young ensign was at liberty to resume his former business . He did indeed return for a short time to his desk . He again quitted it in order to ...
... Dupleix was in consequence compelled to restore Madras to the English Company ; and the young ensign was at liberty to resume his former business . He did indeed return for a short time to his desk . He again quitted it in order to ...
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... Dupleix . His restless , capacious , and inventive mind had formed this scheme , at a time when the ablest ser- vants of the English Company were busied only about invoices and bills of lading . Nor had he only proposed to himself the ...
... Dupleix . His restless , capacious , and inventive mind had formed this scheme , at a time when the ablest ser- vants of the English Company were busied only about invoices and bills of lading . Nor had he only proposed to himself the ...
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... Dupleix , dressed in the garb worn by Mahommedans of the highest rank , entered the town in the same palanquin with the Nizam , and , in the pageant which followed , took precedence of all the court . He was declared Governor of India ...
... Dupleix , dressed in the garb worn by Mahommedans of the highest rank , entered the town in the same palanquin with the Nizam , and , in the pageant which followed , took precedence of all the court . He was declared Governor of India ...
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... Dupleix , and apprehensive that , in the event of a new war between France and Great Britain , Madras would be instantly taken and destroyed , approved of Clive's plan , and intrusted the execution of it to him- self . The young captain ...
... Dupleix , and apprehensive that , in the event of a new war between France and Great Britain , Madras would be instantly taken and destroyed , approved of Clive's plan , and intrusted the execution of it to him- self . The young captain ...
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... Dupleix had excited no small uneasiness in the city of London ; and the rapid turn of fortune , which was chiefly owing to the courage and talents of Clive , had been hailed with great de- light . The young captain was known at the ...
... Dupleix had excited no small uneasiness in the city of London ; and the rapid turn of fortune , which was chiefly owing to the courage and talents of Clive , had been hailed with great de- light . The young captain was known at the ...
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