Warren HastingsLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852 - 106 pages |
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... India , the shy and secluded poet could image to himself Hastings the Go- vernor - General only as the Hastings with whom he had rowed on the Thames and played in the cloister , and refused to believe that so good - tempered a fellow ...
... India , the shy and secluded poet could image to himself Hastings the Go- vernor - General only as the Hastings with whom he had rowed on the Thames and played in the cloister , and refused to believe that so good - tempered a fellow ...
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... India 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 ...
... India 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 ...
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... India 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 ...
... India 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 ...
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... India . But high usury and bad security generally go together ; and Hastings lost both 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 ...
... India . But high usury and bad security generally go together ; and Hastings lost both 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 ...
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... India , the old philosopher wrote to him , and referred in the most courtly terms , though with great dignity , to their short but agreeable intercourse . Hastings soon began to look again towards India . He had little to attach him to ...
... India , the old philosopher wrote to him , and referred in the most courtly terms , though with great dignity , to their short but agreeable intercourse . Hastings soon began to look again towards India . He had little to attach him to ...
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