Warren HastingsLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852 - 106 pages |
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... appeared in the Hoogley . Warren , young , intrepid , and excited probably by the example of the Commander of the Forces who , having like himself been a mercantile agent of the Company , had been turned by public calamities into a ...
... appeared in the Hoogley . Warren , young , intrepid , and excited probably by the example of the Commander of the Forces who , having like himself been a mercantile agent of the Company , had been turned by public calamities into a ...
Page 19
... harshly . After a long hearing , in which Nuncomar appeared as the accuser , and displayed both the art and the inveterate rancour which B 2 WARREN HASTINGS . 19 English functionaries assembled in the factory, "I never ...
... harshly . After a long hearing , in which Nuncomar appeared as the accuser , and displayed both the art and the inveterate rancour which B 2 WARREN HASTINGS . 19 English functionaries assembled in the factory, "I never ...
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... appearance , and hastened to plunder the camp of the valiant enemies , whom they had never dared to look in the face . The soldiers of the Company , trained in an exact discipline , kept unbroken order , while the tents were pillaged by ...
... appearance , and hastened to plunder the camp of the valiant enemies , whom they had never dared to look in the face . The soldiers of the Company , trained in an exact discipline , kept unbroken order , while the tents were pillaged by ...
Page 49
... appeared as a blessing when com- pared with the justice of the Supreme Court . Every class of the population , English and native , with the ex- ception of the ravenous pettifoggers who fattened on the misery and terror of an immense ...
... appeared as a blessing when com- pared with the justice of the Supreme Court . Every class of the population , English and native , with the ex- ception of the ravenous pettifoggers who fattened on the misery and terror of an immense ...
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... appeared that the wound , though severe , was not mortal . Hastings inquired repeatedly after his enemy's health , and proposed to call on him ; but Francis coldly declined the visit . He had a proper sense , he said , of the Governor ...
... appeared that the wound , though severe , was not mortal . Hastings inquired repeatedly after his enemy's health , and proposed to call on him ; but Francis coldly declined the visit . He had a proper sense , he said , of the Governor ...
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