 | Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ - 1869 - 280 pàgines
...knowledge of India can be made popular, we should say his ia the pen to effect it." — Times. ' ' Mr. Thornton's history is comprehensive in its plan,...its style, and impartial in its tone." — Globe. " The writer evinces diligence and research into original authorities ; his style is easy, and the... | |
 | Standish Grove Grady - 1869 - 376 pàgines
...if the knowledge of India can be made popular, we should say his ia the pen to effect it."— Times. "Mr. Thornton's history Is comprehensive in its plan,...forcible in its style, and impartial in its tone." — < "The writer evinces diligence and research into original authorities ; Ms style is easy, and... | |
 | Edwin Clennell Leaton BLENKINSOPP - 1869 - 388 pàgines
...if the knowledge of India can be made popular, we should say his is the pen to effect it"—Times. "Mr. Thornton's history is comprehensive in its plan,...clear and forcible in its style, and impartial in its tone."—Globe. '' The writer evinces diligence and research into original authorities ; his style... | |
 | Henry Nutcombe Oxenham - 1869 - 412 pàgines
...if the knowledge of India can he made popular, we should say his is the pen to effect it"—Tiinit. "Mr. Thornton's history Is comprehensive in its plan,...clear and forcible in its style, and impartial in iu tone,"—Glohe, " The writer evinces diligence and research into original authorities; his style... | |
 | Robert Sewell - 1870 - 396 pàgines
...the knowledge of India can be made popular, we should say his is the pen to effect it"— Times. 0 "Mr. Thornton's history is comprehensive in its plan,...in its style, and impartial in its tone."— Globe. ' ' The writer evinces diligence and resea/ch into original authorities ; his style is easy, and the... | |
 | William Foster Vesey Fitzgerald - 1870 - 284 pàgines
...the knowledge of India can be made popular, we should say his is the pen to effect it." — Times. "Mr. Thornton's history is comprehensive in its plan,...its style, and impartial in its tone." — Globe. and the intrinsic interest of the important events of Indian history is thus increased by a popular... | |
 | 1867 - 532 pàgines
...INDIA, 6 vols. 8vo. cloth, 14s 1841 "A sonnd, an impartial, and a searching composition : cba-stc, elegant, and flowing in diction, profound In thought...and thoroughly logical in reasoning." — Colonial Aiagcuitic. 891 THORPE'S ( J.) REOISTRDM ROFFENSE, containing a Collection of Charters, Aneient Records,... | |
 | 1847 - 742 pàgines
...the work is free, rapid, and spirited, and bean marks of a thorough familiarity with the subject."— PATRIOT. " Mr. Thornton's History is comprehensive...forcible in its style, and impartial in Its tone." — GLOBK. I "A sound, an impartial, and a searching composition ; chaste, elegant, and flowing in... | |
 | 1854 - 796 pàgines
...THORNTON'S History of the British Empire in India, 6 vole. 8vo. cloth, £1. 8« (pub. £4. 16«) 1841-5 "A sound, an impartial, and a searching composition...chaste, elegant, and flowing in diction . profound ID thought, aud thoroughly logical in reasoning."— COLONIAL MAGA/INL. 912 THORNTON'S Gazetteer of... | |
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... and vigour, always interesting-, and frequently rising into eloquence. His power of painting character and of bringing before the eye of the reader the events which he relates, is remarkable; and if the knowledge of India can be made popular, we should... 
