Warren HastingsCassell, 1886 - 191 pages |
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Page 21
... able and bitter enemies who afterwards persecuted him would not have failed to discover and to proclaim his guilt . The keen , severe , and even malevolent scrutiny to which his whole public life was subjected , a scrutiny unparalleled ...
... able and bitter enemies who afterwards persecuted him would not have failed to discover and to proclaim his guilt . The keen , severe , and even malevolent scrutiny to which his whole public life was subjected , a scrutiny unparalleled ...
Page 30
... able , active , religious after the fashion of his people , and highly esteemed by them . In England he might perhaps have been regarded as a corrupt and greedy politician . But , tried by the lower standard of Indian morality , he ...
... able , active , religious after the fashion of his people , and highly esteemed by them . In England he might perhaps have been regarded as a corrupt and greedy politician . But , tried by the lower standard of Indian morality , he ...
Page 37
... able and unprin- cipled parent by promoting the inoffensive child . The revolution completed , the double government dissolved , the Company installed in the full sover- eignty of Bengal , Hastings had no motive to treat the late ...
... able and unprin- cipled parent by promoting the inoffensive child . The revolution completed , the double government dissolved , the Company installed in the full sover- eignty of Bengal , Hastings had no motive to treat the late ...
Page 77
... able to protect the British Channel . Great as were the faults of Hastings , it was happy for our country that at that conjuncture , the most terrible through which she has ever passed , he was the ruler WARREN HASTINGS . 77.
... able to protect the British Channel . Great as were the faults of Hastings , it was happy for our country that at that conjuncture , the most terrible through which she has ever passed , he was the ruler WARREN HASTINGS . 77.
Page 90
... able to exact ransom , by threatening to make their captives walk the plank . But to ransom a captive from pirates has always been held a humane and Christian act ; and it would be absurd to charge the payer of the ransom with ...
... able to exact ransom , by threatening to make their captives walk the plank . But to ransom a captive from pirates has always been held a humane and Christian act ; and it would be absurd to charge the payer of the ransom with ...
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