Warren HastingsCassell, 1886 - 191 pages |
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Page 8
... called him " the incomparable man . " One of his biographers says , " His narrative power among his- torians is quite unapproached , and on a level with that of the greatest masters of prose fiction . . . . He was the best story ...
... called him " the incomparable man . " One of his biographers says , " His narrative power among his- torians is quite unapproached , and on a level with that of the greatest masters of prose fiction . . . . He was the best story ...
Page 14
... called him , was one of the masters . Churchill , Colman , Lloyd , Cumberland , Cowper , were among the students . With Cowper , Hastings formed a friendship which neither the lapse of time , nor a wide dissimilarity of opinions and ...
... called him , was one of the masters . Churchill , Colman , Lloyd , Cumberland , Cowper , were among the students . With Cowper , Hastings formed a friendship which neither the lapse of time , nor a wide dissimilarity of opinions and ...
Page 23
... 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 left on Johnson's ...
... 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 left on Johnson's ...
Page 24
... called himself a Baron ; but he was in distressed circum- stances , and was going out to Madras as a portrait painter , in the hope of picking up some of the pagodas which were then lightly got and as lightly spent by the English in ...
... called himself a Baron ; but he was in distressed circum- stances , and was going out to Madras as a portrait painter , in the hope of picking up some of the pagodas which were then lightly got and as lightly spent by the English in ...
Page 26
... called into council by his wife and his wife's lover . It was arranged that the Baroness should institute a suit for divorce in the courts of Franconia , that the Baron should afford every facility to the proceeding , and that , during ...
... called into council by his wife and his wife's lover . It was arranged that the Baroness should institute a suit for divorce in the courts of Franconia , that the Baron should afford every facility to the proceeding , and that , during ...
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