Warren HastingsCassell, 1886 - 191 pages |
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... honor upon the other ; both singularly versatile , and yet differing widely in intellectual ten- dency , and more widely in moral tone . WARREN HASTINGS , the first Governor - General of India , was born in 1732 , and died in 1818 ...
... honor upon the other ; both singularly versatile , and yet differing widely in intellectual ten- dency , and more widely in moral tone . WARREN HASTINGS , the first Governor - General of India , was born in 1732 , and died in 1818 ...
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... honor that , in days when the languages of the 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 ...
... honor that , in days when the languages of the 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 ...
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... honor . An attachment sprang up , which was soon strengthened by events such as could hardly have occurred on land . Hast- ings fell ill . The Baroness nursed him with womanly tenderness , gave him his medicines with her own hand , and ...
... honor . An attachment sprang up , which was soon strengthened by events such as could hardly have occurred on land . Hast- ings fell ill . The Baroness nursed him with womanly tenderness , gave him his medicines with her own hand , and ...
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... honor . His competitor was a Hindoo Brahmin whose name has , by a terrible and melancholy event , been inseparably associated with that of Warren Hastings , the Maharajah Nuncomar . This man had played an important part in all the ...
... honor . His competitor was a Hindoo Brahmin whose name has , by a terrible and melancholy event , been inseparably associated with that of Warren Hastings , the Maharajah Nuncomar . This man had played an important part in all the ...
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... honor . A for- mal apology was made to him for the restraint to which he had been subjected . All the Eastern marks of respect were bestowed on him . He was clothed in a robe of state , presented with jewels and with a richly harnessed ...
... honor . A for- mal apology was made to him for the restraint to which he had been subjected . All the Eastern marks of respect were bestowed on him . He was clothed in a robe of state , presented with jewels and with a richly harnessed ...
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