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Mountstuart Elphinstone
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Mountstuart Elphinstone : History of India
'Pray Read the first Vol of Elphinstone's India - the News from China gives me the greatest pleasure. I am for bombarding all the exclusive Asiatics who shut up the Earth and will not let me walk civilly and quietly through it, doing no harm, and paying for all I want'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book
Mountstuart Elphinstone : Account of the Kingdom of Caubul and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary and India
'S goes to Egham - he reads Aeschylus and tavels in the kingdom of Caubul - read Rasselas - make jellies and work'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
Mountstuart Elphinstone : Account of the Kingdom of Caubul and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary and India
'S. finishes the plays of Aeschylus - finishes the Hist. of Caubul - writes - reads three chap. of Gibbon aloud'
