Warren HastingsLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852 - 106 pages |
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... Company . Whether the young adven- turer , when once shipped off , made a fortune , or died of a liver complaint , he equally ceased to be a burden to any body . Warren was accordingly removed from Westminster school , and placed for a ...
... Company . Whether the young adven- turer , when once shipped off , made a fortune , or died of a liver complaint , he equally ceased to be a burden to any body . Warren was accordingly removed from Westminster school , and placed for a ...
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... Company , was treated with indulgence . Meanwhile the Nabob marched on Calcutta ; the governor and the commandant fled ; the town and citadel were taken , and most of the English prisoners perished in the Black Hole . In these events ...
... Company , was treated with indulgence . Meanwhile the Nabob marched on Calcutta ; the governor and the commandant fled ; the town and citadel were taken , and most of the English prisoners perished in the Black Hole . In these events ...
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... Company a stain , not wholly effaced by many years of just and humane government . Mr. Vansittart , the Governor , was at the head of a new and anomalous em- pire . On one side was a band of English functionaries , daring , intelligent ...
... Company a stain , not wholly effaced by many years of just and humane government . Mr. Vansittart , the Governor , was at the head of a new and anomalous em- pire . On one side was a band of English functionaries , daring , intelligent ...
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... Company merely as the means of com- municating with weavers and money - changers , his enlarged and accomplished mind sought in Asiatic learning for new forms of intellectual enjoyment , and for new views of government and 10 WARREN ...
... Company merely as the means of com- municating with weavers and money - changers , his enlarged and accomplished mind sought in Asiatic learning for new forms of intellectual enjoyment , and for new views of government and 10 WARREN ...
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... Company : and profes- sors thoroughly competent to interpret Hafiz and Ferdusi were to be engaged in the East . Hastings called on Johnson , with the hope , as it should seem , of interesting in this project a man who enjoyed the ...
... Company : and profes- sors thoroughly competent to interpret Hafiz and Ferdusi were to be engaged in the East . Hastings called on Johnson , with the hope , as it should seem , of interesting in this project a man who enjoyed the ...
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