See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

ROBERT See also:

• ROBERT ORME (1728-1801)

ORME (1728-1801)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English historian of See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Anjengo on the See also:

• MALABAR

Malabar See also:

• COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast on the 25th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1728, the son of a surgeon in the See also:

• COMPANY

Company's service . Educated at See also:

• HARROW

Harrow, he was appointed to a writership in See also:

• BENGAL
• BENGAL, BAY OF

Bengal in 1743 . He returned to See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England in 1753 in the same See also:

• SHIP

ship with See also:

• CLIVE, CAROLINE (1801-1873)
• CLIVE, CATHERINE [KITTY] (1711-1785)
• CLIVE, ROBERT CLIVE, BARON (1725-1774)

Clive, with whom he formed a See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close friendship . From 1754 to 1758 he was a member of See also:

• COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council at See also:

• MADRAS

Madras, in which capacity he largely influenced the sending of Clive to See also:

• CALCUTTA

Calcutta to avenge the See also:

• CATASTROPHE (Gr. Karaurpoch, from KaraQrp4ecv, to over-turn)

catastrophe of the See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

Black Hole . His See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• WORK

work—A See also:

• HISTORY

History of the Military Transactions of the See also:

• BRITISH

British Nation in Indostan from 1745—was published in three volumes in 1763 and 1778 (Madras reprint, 186r-1862) . This was followed by a See also:

• VOLUME

volume of See also:

• HISTORICAL

Historical Fragments (1781), dealing with an earlier See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period . In 1769 he was appointed historiographer to the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East India Company . He died at See also:

• EALING

Ealing on the 13th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 18o1 . His valuable collections of See also:

• MSS

MSS. are in the India See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

Office library . The characteristics of his work, of which the See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence is admirably shown in See also:

• THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE (1811-1863)

Thackeray's The Newcomes, are thus described by See also:

• MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, BARON (1800-1859)

Macaulay: " See also:

• ORME, ROBERT (1728-1801)

Orme, inferior to no English historian in See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style and See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of See also:

• PAINTING

painting, is See also:

• MINUTE
• MINUTE (Lat. minutes, small; minuere, to make less)

minute even to tediousness . In one volume he allots, on an See also:

• AVERAGE

average, a closely printed See also:

• QUARTO

quarto See also:

• PAGE
• PAGE, THOMAS NELSON (1853- )
• PAGE, WILLIAM (1811-1885)

page to the events of every See also:

• FORTY

forty-eight See also:

• HOURS, CANONICAL

hours . The consequence is that his narrative, though one of the most See also:

• AUTHENTIC (from Gr. aOO 'rns, one who does a thing himself)

authentic and one of the most finely written in our See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language, has never been very popular, and is now scarcely ever read." Not a few of the most picturesque passages in Macaulay's own See also:

• ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

Essay on Clive are borrowed from Orme .

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