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Page 15
... idea of the general empire of Indostan . As a preliminary to this undertaking , they prevailed on him to propose a tripartite division of that vast country . One part to the Company ; another to the Mahrattas ; and the third to himself ...
... idea of the general empire of Indostan . As a preliminary to this undertaking , they prevailed on him to propose a tripartite division of that vast country . One part to the Company ; another to the Mahrattas ; and the third to himself ...
Page 31
... idea of accelerating the end of his sufferings . This spectacle , which makes my heart palpitate , and which I paint but too feebly , took place during the execution of the par- ties distributed about the sand - hills . At length there ...
... idea of accelerating the end of his sufferings . This spectacle , which makes my heart palpitate , and which I paint but too feebly , took place during the execution of the par- ties distributed about the sand - hills . At length there ...
Page 33
... ideas of a bondman to the description which Dr Holland gives of the condition and household of the superior classes of the Greeks at Ioannina , under the notorious Ali Pashaw . I shall read to you what he says . " GREEK MANNERS . " The ...
... ideas of a bondman to the description which Dr Holland gives of the condition and household of the superior classes of the Greeks at Ioannina , under the notorious Ali Pashaw . I shall read to you what he says . " GREEK MANNERS . " The ...
Page 37
... ideas of slavery and barbarism have been strangely unsettled . Bowdich's mission to Ashantee has opened up a view of the state of Africa of which I had formed no pre- vious conception . Really it would seem that the barbaric pearl and ...
... ideas of slavery and barbarism have been strangely unsettled . Bowdich's mission to Ashantee has opened up a view of the state of Africa of which I had formed no pre- vious conception . Really it would seem that the barbaric pearl and ...
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... idea is again the substance of the Vice of the ancient allegorical drama . 66 Equally dramatic and poetical is the part allotted to Satan in those ancient romances of religion , the Lives of the Saints : he is the main motive of the ...
... idea is again the substance of the Vice of the ancient allegorical drama . 66 Equally dramatic and poetical is the part allotted to Satan in those ancient romances of religion , the Lives of the Saints : he is the main motive of the ...
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