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... whole people . If their passion or their avarice drove the Tartar lords to acts of rapacity or tyranny , there was time enough , even in the short life of man , to bring round the ill effects of an abuse of power upon the power itself ...
... whole people . If their passion or their avarice drove the Tartar lords to acts of rapacity or tyranny , there was time enough , even in the short life of man , to bring round the ill effects of an abuse of power upon the power itself ...
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... whole kingdom will find the best company in this nation , at a board of elegance and hos- pitality . Here the manufacturer and husbandman will bless the just and punctual hand that in India has torn the cloth from the loom , or wrested ...
... whole kingdom will find the best company in this nation , at a board of elegance and hos- pitality . Here the manufacturer and husbandman will bless the just and punctual hand that in India has torn the cloth from the loom , or wrested ...
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... whole succession of the Com- pany's service . But in the Company it gave rise to other sentiments . They did not find the new channels of acquisition flow with equal riches to them . On the contrary , the high flood - tide of private ...
... whole succession of the Com- pany's service . But in the Company it gave rise to other sentiments . They did not find the new channels of acquisition flow with equal riches to them . On the contrary , the high flood - tide of private ...
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... whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance , and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together was no protection . He became at length ...
... whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance , and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together was no protection . He became at length ...
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... whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic . Then ensued a scene of woe , the like of which no eye had seen , no heart conceived , and which no tongue can adequately tell . All the horrors of war , before known or heard of ...
... whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic . Then ensued a scene of woe , the like of which no eye had seen , no heart conceived , and which no tongue can adequately tell . All the horrors of war , before known or heard of ...
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