Warren HastingsCassell, 1886 - 191 pages |
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... talents for government , and great literary talents too ; fine taste , a princely spirit , and heroic equanimity in the midst of adversity and danger . " While we read this tribute from Lord Macaulay to Warren Hastings , let us at the ...
... talents for government , and great literary talents too ; fine taste , a princely spirit , and heroic equanimity in the midst of adversity and danger . " While we read this tribute from Lord Macaulay to Warren Hastings , let us at the ...
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... talents and energy of Clive . Vansittart , with fair intentions , was a feeble and inefficient ruler . The master caste , as was natu- ral , broke loose from all restraint ; and then was seen what we believe to be the most frightful of ...
... talents and energy of Clive . Vansittart , with fair intentions , was a feeble and inefficient ruler . The master caste , as was natu- ral , broke loose from all restraint ; and then was seen what we believe to be the most frightful of ...
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... talents and at- tainments of his visitor . Long after , when Hastings was ruling the immense population of British India , the old philosopher wrote to him , and referred in the most courtly terms , though with great dignity , to their ...
... talents and at- tainments of his visitor . Long after , when Hastings was ruling the immense population of British India , the old philosopher wrote to him , and referred in the most courtly terms , though with great dignity , to their ...
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... talents and influence had not only procured his liberation , but had obtained for him a certain degree of consideration even among the British rulers of his country . Clive was extremely unwilling to place a Mussul- man at the head of ...
... talents and influence had not only procured his liberation , but had obtained for him a certain degree of consideration even among the British rulers of his country . Clive was extremely unwilling to place a Mussul- man at the head of ...
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... talents . In less than two years after he assumed the govern- ment , he had , without imposing any additional burdens on the people subject to his authority , added about four hundred and fifty thousand pounds to the annual income of ...
... talents . In less than two years after he assumed the govern- ment , he had , without imposing any additional burdens on the people subject to his authority , added about four hundred and fifty thousand pounds to the annual income of ...
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