Warren HastingsLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852 - 106 pages |
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... body else . " Paint me as I am , " said Oliver Cromwell , while sitting to young Lely . " If you leave out the scars and wrinkles , I will not pay you a shilling . " Even in such a trifle , the great Protector showed both . his good ...
... body else . " Paint me as I am , " said Oliver Cromwell , while sitting to young Lely . " If you leave out the scars and wrinkles , I will not pay you a shilling . " Even in such a trifle , the great Protector showed both . his good ...
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... body . Warren was accordingly removed from Westminster school , and placed for a few months at a commercial academy , to study arithmetic and book - keeping . In January 1750 , a few days after he had com- pleted his seventeenth year ...
... body . Warren was accordingly removed from Westminster school , and placed for a few months at a commercial academy , to study arithmetic and book - keeping . In January 1750 , a few days after he had com- pleted his seventeenth year ...
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... body . It is weak even to helplessness for purposes of manly resistance ; but its suppleness and its tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration not unmingled with contempt . All those arts which are the natural defence of ...
... body . It is weak even to helplessness for purposes of manly resistance ; but its suppleness and its tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration not unmingled with contempt . All those arts which are the natural defence of ...
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... body who had . One thing , indeed , is to be said in excuse for him . The pressure applied to him by his employers at home , was such as only the highest virtue could have withstood , such as left him no choice except to commit great ...
... body who had . One thing , indeed , is to be said in excuse for him . The pressure applied to him by his employers at home , was such as only the highest virtue could have withstood , such as left him no choice except to commit great ...
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... body knows who knows India , had only to tell the Munny Begum that such a letter would give pleasure to the majority of the Council , in order to procure her attestation . The majority , however , voted that the charge was made out ...
... body knows who knows India , had only to tell the Munny Begum that such a letter would give pleasure to the majority of the Council , in order to procure her attestation . The majority , however , voted that the charge was made out ...
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