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... English Manners , ........................... . ... 328 Littlecote - House , .. ib . The Squire's Daughter , .................. 332 The Upstart of Elizabeth's Time , ...... 333 A Squire of the Revolution , ............ 334 A Squire ...
... English Manners , ........................... . ... 328 Littlecote - House , .. ib . The Squire's Daughter , .................. 332 The Upstart of Elizabeth's Time , ...... 333 A Squire of the Revolution , ............ 334 A Squire ...
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... English government all this order is reversed . The Tartar invasion was mischievous ; but it is our protection that destroys India . It was their en- mity , but it is our friendship . Our conquest there , after twenty years , is as ...
... English government all this order is reversed . The Tartar invasion was mischievous ; but it is our protection that destroys India . It was their en- mity , but it is our friendship . Our conquest there , after twenty years , is as ...
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... see trailing a pike , or bending over a desk at home . But as English youth in India drink the intoxicating draught of authority and dominion before their heads are able to bear it , and as they are 12 THE BACHELOR'S WIFE .
... see trailing a pike , or bending over a desk at home . But as English youth in India drink the intoxicating draught of authority and dominion before their heads are able to bear it , and as they are 12 THE BACHELOR'S WIFE .
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... dis- position was to be secured by the nabob's putting him- self under the guarantee of France , and by the means of that rival nation preventing the English for ever from assuming an equality , much less a superiority , ELOQUENCE . 15.
... dis- position was to be secured by the nabob's putting him- self under the guarantee of France , and by the means of that rival nation preventing the English for ever from assuming an equality , much less a superiority , ELOQUENCE . 15.
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... English , they extin- guished the Company as a sovereign power in that part of India ; they withdrew the Company's garrisons out of all the forts and strong - holds of the Carnatic ; they declined to receive the ambassadors from foreign ...
... English , they extin- guished the Company as a sovereign power in that part of India ; they withdrew the Company's garrisons out of all the forts and strong - holds of the Carnatic ; they declined to receive the ambassadors from foreign ...
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