Warren HastingsLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852 - 106 pages |
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... course from that of the young rustics with whom he studied and played . But no cloud could overcast the dawn of so much genius and so much ambition . The very ploughmen observed , and long remembered , how kindly little Warren took to ...
... course from that of the young rustics with whom he studied and played . But no cloud could overcast the dawn of so much genius and so much ambition . The very ploughmen observed , and long remembered , how kindly little Warren took to ...
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... Church , when an event happened which changed the whole course of his life . Howard Hastings died , bequeathing his nephew to the care of a friend and distant relation , named Chiswick . This gentleman , though he 6 WARREN HASTINGS .
... Church , when an event happened which changed the whole course of his life . Howard Hastings died , bequeathing his nephew to the care of a friend and distant relation , named Chiswick . This gentleman , though he 6 WARREN HASTINGS .
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... course would be to neglect the sermons and to find the rupees . A mind so fertile as his , and so little restrained by conscientious scruples , speedily discovered several modes of relieving the financial embarrassments of the ...
... course would be to neglect the sermons and to find the rupees . A mind so fertile as his , and so little restrained by conscientious scruples , speedily discovered several modes of relieving the financial embarrassments of the ...
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... course of conquest ever turned back towards the setting sun , till that memorable campaign in which the cross of Saint George was planted on the walls of Ghizni . The Emperors of Hindostan themselves came from the other side of the ...
... course of conquest ever turned back towards the setting sun , till that memorable campaign in which the cross of Saint George was planted on the walls of Ghizni . The Emperors of Hindostan themselves came from the other side of the ...
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... course in order to gratify the Governor - General . If we had ever had any doubts on that point , they would have been dispelled by a letter which Mr. Gleig has published . Hastings , three or four years later , described Impey as the ...
... course in order to gratify the Governor - General . If we had ever had any doubts on that point , they would have been dispelled by a letter which Mr. Gleig has published . Hastings , three or four years later , described Impey as the ...
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