Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous, Volumen1Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1854 - 744 páginas |
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... Clive climbed to the top of the lofty steeple of Market - Drayton , and with what terror the inha- bitants saw him seated on a stone spout near the summit . They also relate how he formed all the good - for - nothing lads of the town ...
... Clive climbed to the top of the lofty steeple of Market - Drayton , and with what terror the inha- bitants saw him seated on a stone spout near the summit . They also relate how he formed all the good - for - nothing lads of the town ...
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... Clive to have access to it . The young man devoted much of his leisure to reading , and acquired at this time almost all the knowledge of books that he ever possessed . As a boy he had been too idle , as a man he soon became too busy ...
... Clive to have access to it . The young man devoted much of his leisure to reading , and acquired at this time almost all the knowledge of books that he ever possessed . As a boy he had been too idle , as a man he soon became too busy ...
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... to the French , whose fame had been raised by their success agains the English in the recent war on the coast of Coromandel . 4 Nothing could have happened more pleasing its greatest triumph , MALCOLM'S LIFE OF CLIVE . 319.
... to the French , whose fame had been raised by their success agains the English in the recent war on the coast of Coromandel . 4 Nothing could have happened more pleasing its greatest triumph , MALCOLM'S LIFE OF CLIVE . 319.
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... Clive was now twenty - five years old . After hesitating for some time between a military and a commercial life , he had at length been placed in a post which partook of both cha- racters - that of commissary to the troops , with the ...
... Clive was now twenty - five years old . After hesitating for some time between a military and a commercial life , he had at length been placed in a post which partook of both cha- racters - that of commissary to the troops , with the ...
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... Clive well knew that he would not be suffered to retain undisturbed possession of his conquest . He instantly began to collect provisions , to throw up works , and to make preparations for sustaining a siege . The gar- rison , which had ...
... Clive well knew that he would not be suffered to retain undisturbed possession of his conquest . He instantly began to collect provisions , to throw up works , and to make preparations for sustaining a siege . The gar- rison , which had ...
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