1639-1702

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J. Higginbotham, 1861

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Side 45 - The heart, like a tendril, accustom'd to cling, Let it grow where it will, cannot flourish alone, But will lean to the nearest and loveliest thing It can twine with itself, and make closely its own.
Side 69 - High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind; Or where the gorgeous east, with richest hand, Showers on her kings, barbaric pearls and gold, Satan exalted sat.
Side 347 - Elizabeth under the name of the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading to the East Indies.
Side 195 - It is not being bred a boy in India, or studying long there and speaking the language, understanding critically the trade of the place, that is sufficient to fit a man for such a command as the second of Fort St. George is, or may be in time ; though all these qualifications are very good in their kind, and essentially necessary to the well carrying on of the trade ; and little science was not necessary formerly, when we were in the state of mere trading merchants.
Side 138 - ... in the world. People protected ought in all parts of the universe, in some way or other, to defray the charge of their protection and preservation from wrong and violence.
Side 379 - Nabob was coming with a great detachment of horse and foot with all his elephants, and what he meant by it he could not imagine. So the Governor ordered immediately to beat up for the Train bands and the Marine Company, and drew out a detachment of a hundred men under Captain Seaton to attend him and those gentlemen of the Council who went to the Garden to receive the Nabob.
Side 165 - ... suaviter in modo fortiter in re."- But i£ nevertheless he pretend to any dominion over your city, you may, when you are in a good condition, tell him in plain terms that we own him for our good friend, ally, and confederate, and sovereign and lord paramount of all that country, excepting the small territory belonging to Madras...
Side 14 - And choaks up with the glittering wrecks Of golden shrines the sacred waters ! Downward the Peri turns her gaze, And, through the war-field's bloody haze Beholds a youthful warrior stand, Alone beside his native river, — The red blade broken in his hand, And the last arrow in his quiver.
Side 14 - Paradise ! But crimson now her rivers ran With human blood — the smell of death Came reeking from those spicy bowers, And man, the sacrifice of man, Mingled his taint with every breath Upwafted from the innocent flowers ! Land of the Sun ! what foot invades Thy pagods and thy pillar'd shades...
Side 365 - But two days after, our agents having by their appl1cation to some of the principal officers in some measure pacified the Nabob, Dewan and Buxie, he sent again for his present, but still told them it was not near enough for him, he having been at Court, where it had cost him a great deal of money for his employ, which he must and would raise by some means or other: telling us that he had an account of our revenues...

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