Warren HastingsLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852 - 106 pages |
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... honour that , in days when the languages of the East were regarded by other servants of the Company merely as the means of com- municating with weavers and money - changers , his enlarged and accomplished mind sought in Asiatic learning ...
... honour that , in days when the languages of the East were regarded by other servants of the Company merely as the means of com- municating with weavers and money - changers , his enlarged and accomplished mind sought in Asiatic learning ...
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... honour . An attachment sprang up , which was soon strengthened by events such as could hardly have occurred on land . Hastings fell ill . The baroness nursed him with womanly tenderness , gave him his medicines with her own hand , and ...
... honour . An attachment sprang up , which was soon strengthened by events such as could hardly have occurred on land . Hastings fell ill . The baroness nursed him with womanly tenderness , gave him his medicines with her own hand , and ...
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... honour . His competitor was a Hindoo Brahmin whose name has , by a terrible and melancholy event , been inseparably associated with that of Warren Hastings , the Maharajah Nuncomar . This man had played an important part in all the ...
... honour . His competitor was a Hindoo Brahmin whose name has , by a terrible and melancholy event , been inseparably associated with that of Warren Hastings , the Maharajah Nuncomar . This man had played an important part in all the ...
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... honoured , without having the spirit to strike one blow , has yet been known to endure torture with the firmness of Mucius , and to mount the scaffold with the steady step and even pulse of Algernon Sidney . In Nuncomar , the national ...
... honoured , without having the spirit to strike one blow , has yet been known to endure torture with the firmness of Mucius , and to mount the scaffold with the steady step and even pulse of Algernon Sidney . In Nuncomar , the national ...
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... honour . A formal apology was made to him for the restraint to which he had been subjected . All the Eastern marks of respect were be- stowed on him . He was clothed in a robe of state , presented with jewels and with a richly harnessed ...
... honour . A formal apology was made to him for the restraint to which he had been subjected . All the Eastern marks of respect were be- stowed on him . He was clothed in a robe of state , presented with jewels and with a richly harnessed ...
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