Warren HastingsCassell, 1886 - 191 pages |
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... 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 graphic picture 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 graphic picture of ...
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... India ; in 1834 sailed for India ; in 1835 became " President of the Committee of Public Instruction , " and then " Pres- ident of the Law Commission , " in which position he framed a criminal code for the whole Indian Empire ; in 1838 ...
... India ; in 1834 sailed for India ; in 1835 became " President of the Committee of Public Instruction , " and then " Pres- ident of the Law Commission , " in which position he framed a criminal code for the whole Indian Empire ; in 1838 ...
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... India , he was more agreeable than before he went . " His enemies , " added Sid- ney , " might , perhaps , have said before ( though I never did so ) that he talked rather too much ; but now he has occasional flashes of silence , that ...
... India , he was more agreeable than before he went . " His enemies , " added Sid- ney , " might , perhaps , have said before ( though I never did so ) that he talked rather too much ; but now he has occasional flashes of silence , that ...
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... India , the shy and secluded poet could imagine to himself Hastings the 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 ...
... India , the shy and secluded poet could imagine to himself Hastings the 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 ...
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... 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 placed for ...
... 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 placed for ...
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