Selections From the Prose of Macaulay (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Selections From the Prose of Macaulay The Life of Robert Lord Cine; collected from the Family Papers communicated by the Earl of Powis. By Major- General Sir John Malcolm, K.C.B. 3 vols., 8vo. London: 1836. We have always thought it strange that, while the history of the Spanish empire in America is familiarly known to all the nations of Europe, the great actions of our countrymen in the East should, even among ourselves, excite little interest. Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma, and who strangled Atahualpa. But we doubt whether one in ten, even among English gentlemen of highly cultivated minds, can tell who won the battle of Buxar, who perpetrated the massacre of Patna, whether Surajah Dowlah ruled in Oude or in Travancore, or whether Holkar was a Hindoo or a Mussulman. Yet the victories of Cortez were gained over savages who had no letters; who were ignorant of the use of metals; who had not broken in a single animal to labor; who wielded no better weapons than those which could be made out of sticks, flints, and fish-bones; who regarded a horse-soldier as a monster, half man and half beast; who took an arquebusier for a sorcerer, able to scatter the thunder and lightning of the skies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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