The Edinburgh Review, Band 148A. and C. Black, 1878 |
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... causes than those over which we have control . There is no such thing as permanency among the native states of India . Some are growing stronger , others weaker ; and already the status established by the settlement of 1792 has ...
... causes than those over which we have control . There is no such thing as permanency among the native states of India . Some are growing stronger , others weaker ; and already the status established by the settlement of 1792 has ...
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... cause of a monarch whom they know to be worthless and ungrateful . But this is because they feel that it is not only the fortune of the king which is at stake , but that the interests of the nation are bound up in maintaining the ...
... cause of a monarch whom they know to be worthless and ungrateful . But this is because they feel that it is not only the fortune of the king which is at stake , but that the interests of the nation are bound up in maintaining the ...
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... cause for the estrangement of the Court of Direc- tors from the Governor - General was that he had interfered with two of their dearest interests . He had appointed mili- tary officers to military offices of responsibility , one as ...
... cause for the estrangement of the Court of Direc- tors from the Governor - General was that he had interfered with two of their dearest interests . He had appointed mili- tary officers to military offices of responsibility , one as ...
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... causes of disagreement were referred to , his great services were recognised in adequate terms , and he was asked to continue in office for another year , to perfect the retrenchments of which their affairs in India were now susceptible ...
... causes of disagreement were referred to , his great services were recognised in adequate terms , and he was asked to continue in office for another year , to perfect the retrenchments of which their affairs in India were now susceptible ...
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... causing great loss , the brunt of which was again borne by the 76th . The victory however was complete . The enemy , their position carried at the point of the bayonet , fled in rout , leaving nearly seventy guns on the field ; the ...
... causing great loss , the brunt of which was again borne by the 76th . The victory however was complete . The enemy , their position carried at the point of the bayonet , fled in rout , leaving nearly seventy guns on the field ; the ...
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Seite 59 - What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Seite 469 - Highness's dominions and countries, as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes as temporal; and that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within his Majesty's said realms, dominions and countries.
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Seite 33 - I have not been guilty of robbery or murder, and he has certainly changed his mind ; but the world, which is always good-natured towards those whose affairs do not exactly prosper, will not, or rather does not, fail to suspect that both, or worse, have been the occasion of my being banished, like General Kray, to my estate in Hungary.
Seite 291 - Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for Antiquity, it offers no redress for the Present, and makes no preparation for the Future.
Seite 291 - House" has abdicated its initiatory functions, and now serves only as a court of review of the legislation of the House of Commons. Whenever public opinion, which this party never attempts to form, to educate, or to lead, falls into some violent perplexity, passion, or caprice, this party yields without a struggle to the impulse, and, when the storm has passed, attempts to obstruct and obviate the logical and, ultimately, the inevitable results of the very measures they have themselves originated,...
Seite 371 - If any individual of the people of the Arabs contracting shall attack any that pass by land or sea of any nation whatsoever, in the way of plunder and piracy and not of acknowledged war, he shall be accounted an enemy of all mankind and shall be held to have forfeited both life and goods.
Seite 518 - Aid, friendship, nor alliance. With the poor I make my treaty, and the heart of man Sets the broad seal of its allegiance there, And ratifies the compact. Vassals, serfs, Ye that are bent with unrequited toil, Ye that have...
Seite 103 - Well, my boys, we have a clear sky, and are making fine headway over a smooth sea before a light breeze, and we shall soon lose sight of land; but what means this sudden lowering of the heavens, and that dark cloud arising from beneath the western horizon...
Seite 241 - If a man were called to fix upon the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great, to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy.