The Trade of the East India Company From 1709 to 1813
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East India House was therefore a great centre of activity.
Its officials were among the most important men in the City. Even its clerks had a status and reputation, which have been well portrayed by Charles Lamb, who was himself in the service of the Company for thirty years 3 . The quantity of letters and despatches received at India House can 1 Epicoene, Act 1, Sc. 1. 2 Spectator, 288.
3 Essays of Elia.
The Company in London 51 be measured somewhat by the fact that from June 1793 to 1813 they... made 9,094 large folio volumes.
But the magnates of Leadenhall Street were not always above reproach. The uneducated parvenu has always excited the bitter sarcasm of less successful men. From the middle of the century the rich "Nabob" figures in all comic fiction, and the presence of such a man upon the boards of a theatre was certain to secure a mirthful applause from the audience*. Even the Court of Directors was ridiculed. At the time of the grant of a "Jagire" to Lord Clive, there appeared a humorous description of a debate at India House, in which an illiterate alderman delivers an absurd speech upon " Lord Vulture's Jaghire 2 ." This is avowedly a lampoon, but it suggests that the type had degenerated/ since the days of Sir Josiah Child.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
East India House was therefore a great centre of activity.
Its officials were among the most important men in the City. Even its clerks had a status and reputation, which have been well portrayed by Charles Lamb, who was himself in the service of the Company for thirty years 3 . The quantity of letters and despatches received at India House can 1 Epicoene, Act 1, Sc. 1. 2 Spectator, 288.
3 Essays of Elia.
The Company in London 51 be measured somewhat by the fact that from June 1793 to 1813 they... made 9,094 large folio volumes.
But the magnates of Leadenhall Street were not always above reproach. The uneducated parvenu has always excited the bitter sarcasm of less successful men. From the middle of the century the rich "Nabob" figures in all comic fiction, and the presence of such a man upon the boards of a theatre was certain to secure a mirthful applause from the audience*. Even the Court of Directors was ridiculed. At the time of the grant of a "Jagire" to Lord Clive, there appeared a humorous description of a debate at India House, in which an illiterate alderman delivers an absurd speech upon " Lord Vulture's Jaghire 2 ." This is avowedly a lampoon, but it suggests that the type had degenerated/ since the days of Sir Josiah Child.
What to read after The Trade of the East India Company From 1709 to 1813?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Robinson, F. P. (Frederick Percival) to read onlineMoreLess
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