Warren HastingsCassell, 1886 - 191 pages |
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Page 16
... East India Company . Whether the young adventurer , when once shipped off , made a fortune , or died of a liver complaint , he equally ceased to be a burden to anybody . Warren was accordingly removed from Westminster School , and ...
... East India Company . Whether the young adventurer , when once shipped off , made a fortune , or died of a liver complaint , he equally ceased to be a burden to anybody . Warren was accordingly removed from Westminster School , and ...
Page 19
... East India Company a stain not wholly effaced by many years of just and humane govern- ment . Mr. Vansittart , the Governor , was at the head of a new and anomalous empire . On one side was a band of English functionaries , daring ...
... East India Company a stain not wholly effaced by many years of just and humane govern- ment . Mr. Vansittart , the Governor , was at the head of a new and anomalous empire . On one side was a band of English functionaries , daring ...
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... East were regarded by other servants of the Company merely as the means of communicating with weavers and money - changers , his enlarged and accomplished mind sought in Asiatic learning for new forms of in- tellectual enjoyment , and ...
... East were regarded by other servants of the Company merely as the means of communicating with weavers and money - changers , his enlarged and accomplished mind sought in Asiatic learning for new forms of in- tellectual enjoyment , and ...
Page 23
... East . Hastings called on Johnson , with the hope , as it should seem , of interesting in this project a man who enjoyed the highest literary reputation , and who was particularly connected with Oxford . The interview appears to have ...
... East . Hastings called on Johnson , with the hope , as it should seem , of interesting in this project a man who enjoyed the highest literary reputation , and who was particularly connected with Oxford . The interview appears to have ...
Page 37
... Eastern marks of respect were bestowed on him . He was clothed in a robe of state , presented with jewels and with a richly harnessed elephant , and sent back to his government at Patna . But his health had suf- fered from confinement ...
... Eastern marks of respect were bestowed on him . He was clothed in a robe of state , presented with jewels and with a richly harnessed elephant , and sent back to his government at Patna . But his health had suf- fered from confinement ...
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