Warren HastingsCassell, 1886 - 191 pages |
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... interests . " " " THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY , the author of this essay , was born Oct. 25 , 1800 , at Rothley Temple , in Leicestershire . His grandfather , John Macaulay , was a Scotch Presbyterian minister at Cardross ; his father ...
... interests . " " " THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY , the author of this essay , was born Oct. 25 , 1800 , at Rothley Temple , in Leicestershire . His grandfather , John Macaulay , was a Scotch Presbyterian minister at Cardross ; his father ...
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... of all who have trod the floor of the Abbey , or lie buried within its precincts , most deeply knew and felt its manifold interests , and most incisively com- memorated them . Lord Macaulay rests at the feet of PREFATORY . 7.
... of all who have trod the floor of the Abbey , or lie buried within its precincts , most deeply knew and felt its manifold interests , and most incisively com- memorated them . Lord Macaulay rests at the feet of PREFATORY . 7.
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... interest and principal . He remained four years in England . Of his life at this time very little is known . But it has been asserted , and is highly probable , that liberal studies and the society of men of letters occupied a great ...
... interest and principal . He remained four years in England . Of his life at this time very little is known . But it has been asserted , and is highly probable , that liberal studies and the society of men of letters occupied a great ...
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... interests are at stake , and his strongest pas- sions excited , will , as against himself , be more just than the sworn dispensers of justice . To take an analagous case from the history of our own island ; suppose that Lord Stafford ...
... interests are at stake , and his strongest pas- sions excited , will , as against himself , be more just than the sworn dispensers of justice . To take an analagous case from the history of our own island ; suppose that Lord Stafford ...
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... is , that the fearful dangers to which the public interests in every quarter were now exposed , made both Lord North and the Company unwilling to part with a Governor whose talents , experience , and resolution , enmity 76 WARREN HASTINGS .
... is , that the fearful dangers to which the public interests in every quarter were now exposed , made both Lord North and the Company unwilling to part with a Governor whose talents , experience , and resolution , enmity 76 WARREN HASTINGS .
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