Warren HastingsCassell, 1886 - 191 pages |
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... Governor - General of India , was born in 1732 , and died in 1818 . THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY , " the historian , the critic , the poet , the philosopher , " whose power- ful pen has in this essay produced and preserved 3 for the ages a ...
... Governor - General of India , was born in 1732 , and died in 1818 . THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY , " the historian , the critic , the poet , the philosopher , " whose power- ful pen has in this essay produced and preserved 3 for the ages a ...
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... Governor - General only as the Hast- ings with whom he had rowed on the Thames and played in the cloister , and refused to believe that so good - tempered a fellow could have done anything very wrong . His own life had been spent in 14 ...
... Governor - General only as the Hast- ings with whom he had rowed on the Thames and played in the cloister , and refused to believe that so good - tempered a fellow could have done anything very wrong . His own life had been spent in 14 ...
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... Governor - General and Council , and was intrusted with a civil and criminal jurisdiction of immense and , at the same time , of undefined extent . The Governor - General and Councillors were named in the act , and were to hold their ...
... Governor - General and Council , and was intrusted with a civil and criminal jurisdiction of immense and , at the same time , of undefined extent . The Governor - General and Councillors were named in the act , and were to hold their ...
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... Governor- General , if he had searched through all the inns of court , could not have found an equally serviceable tool . But the members of Council were by no means in an obsequious mood . Hastings greatly disliked the new form of ...
... Governor- General , if he had searched through all the inns of court , could not have found an equally serviceable tool . But the members of Council were by no means in an obsequious mood . Hastings greatly disliked the new form of ...
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... Governor - General's remon- strances , they proceeded to exercise , in the most indiscreet manner , their new authority over the subordinate presidencies ; threw all the affairs of Bombay into confusion ; and interfered , with an ...
... Governor - General's remon- strances , they proceeded to exercise , in the most indiscreet manner , their new authority over the subordinate presidencies ; threw all the affairs of Bombay into confusion ; and interfered , with an ...
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