Warren HastingsLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852 - 106 pages |
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Page 5
... obtained a place in the Customs . The second son , Pynaston , an idle worthless boy , married before he was sixteen , lost his wife in two years , and died in the West Indies , leaving to the care of his unfortunate father a little ...
... obtained a place in the Customs . The second son , Pynaston , an idle worthless boy , married before he was sixteen , lost his wife in two years , and died in the West Indies , leaving to the care of his unfortunate father a little ...
Page 7
... obtain for the lad a writership in the service of the East 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 ...
... obtain for the lad a writership in the service of the East 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 ...
Page 8
... obtain full information respecting the pro- ceedings of the Nabob ; and no person seemed so likely to furnish it as Hastings , who was a prisoner at large in the immediate neighbourhood of the court . He thus became a diplomatic agent ...
... obtain full information respecting the pro- ceedings of the Nabob ; and no person seemed so likely to furnish it as Hastings , who was a prisoner at large in the immediate neighbourhood of the court . He thus became a diplomatic agent ...
Page 10
... obtain the high usury of 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 ...
... obtain the high usury of 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 ...
Page 17
... obtained for him a certain degree of consideration even among the British rulers of his country . Clive was extremely unwilling to place a Mussulman at the head of the administration of Bengal . On the other hand , he could not bring ...
... obtained for him a certain degree of consideration even among the British rulers of his country . Clive was extremely unwilling to place a Mussulman at the head of the administration of Bengal . On the other hand , he could not bring ...
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