Lord CliveLongmans Green and Company, 1877 - 149 pages |
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Abdâlî Afgân Âgra Arcot arms army Asia Aurungzîb Bâber battle battle of Buxar Bengal Bîjapûr British Calcutta called Carnatic Charles chief chout Chunda Sahib coast command conquerors conquest countrymen court Dakhan Dârâ death defeated Delhi Dictionary died dominions Duke Dupleix Dutch Edition emperor empire enemy England English Essay Europe European expedition force Fort St fortune France French George George Grenville governor Gujarât Hindû Hindûstân History honour House hundred Khân king Lord Clive Lord Macaulay Macaulay Macaulay's Madras Mahrattas marched Meer Jaffier military Mogul Mogul empire Moorshedabad Nabob native never Nizam Odoacer officers Omichund Orissa Oude Patna Peishwâ Pondicherry Portuguese princes prisoner provinces Râja Râjpût Râo reign revenue Ricimer Sâhu sent sepoys servants settlement Shâh Jehân Sir John Malcolm Sivajî soldiers soon success Surajah Dowlah Sûrat thousand pounds throne tion took town trade Trichinopoly troops viceroy victory whole Zamorin
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Page 109 - 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, were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple.
Page 116 - But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea ; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
Page 37 - ... mistake. They expostulated ; they entreated ; but in vain. The guards threatened to cut down all who hesitated. The captives were driven into the cell at the point of the sword, and the door was instantly shut and locked upon them. Nothing in history or fiction...
Page 145 - Since every Jack became a gentleman, There's many a gentle person made a Jack. Q. Eliz. Come, come, we know your meaning, brother Gloster ; You envy my advancement, and my friends' ; God grant we never may have need of you ! Glo.
Page 54 - The treasury of Bengal was thrown open to him. There were piled up, after the usage of Indian princes, immense masses of coin, among which might not seldom be detected the florins and byzants with which, before any European ship had turned the Cape of Good Hope, the Venetians purchased the stuffs and spices of the East. Clive walked between heaps of gold and silver, crowned with rubies and diamonds, and was at liberty to help himself.
Page 47 - ... during a few hours shrank from the fearful responsibility of making a decision. He called a council of war. The majority pronounced against fighting, and Clive declared his concurrence with the majority. Long afterwards, he said that he had never called but one council of war, and that if he had taken the advice of that council, the British would never have been masters of Bengal.
Page 38 - The day broke. The Nabob had slept off his debauch, and permitted the door to be opened. But it was some time before the soldiers could make a lane for the survivors, by piling up on each side the heaps of corpses on which the burning climate had already begun to do its loathsome work. When at length a passage was made, twenty-three ghastly figures, such as their own mothers would not have known, staggered one by one out of the charnel-house. A pit was instantly dug. The dead bodies, a hundred and...
Page 47 - ... that if he had taken the advice of that council, the British would never have been masters of Bengal. But scarcely had the meeting broken up when he was himself again. He retired alone under the shade of some trees, and passed near an hour there in thought. He came back determined to put every thing to the hazard, and gave orders that all should be in readiness for passing the river on the morrow.
Page 37 - Even for a single European malefactor, that dungeon would, in such a climate, have been too close and narrow. The space was only twenty feet square. The air-holes were small and obstructed.
Page 37 - Then was committed that great crime, memorable for its singular atrocity, memorable for the tremendous retribution by which it was followed. The English captives were left at the mercy of the guards, and the guards determined to secure them for the night in the prison of the garrison, a chamber known by the fearful name of the Black Hole.