Warren HastingsLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852 - 106 pages |
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... received from the Tudors the earldom of Huntingdon , which , after long dispossession , was regained in our time by a series of events scarcely paralleled in romance . The lords of the manor of Daylesford , in Worcestershire , claimed ...
... received from the Tudors the earldom of Huntingdon , which , after long dispossession , was regained in our time by a series of events scarcely paralleled in romance . The lords of the manor of Daylesford , in Worcestershire , claimed ...
Page 7
... receiving and sending forth fleets of richly laden barges . At this important point , the Company had established a small fac- tory subordinate to that of Fort William . Here , A 4 WARREN HASTINGS . 7 relation, named Chiswick. This ...
... receiving and sending forth fleets of richly laden barges . At this important point , the Company had established a small fac- tory subordinate to that of Fort William . Here , A 4 WARREN HASTINGS . 7 relation, named Chiswick. This ...
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... received a letter ad- dressed by the Court of Directors , not to the council generally , but to himself in particular . He was directed to remove Mahommed Reza Khan , to arrest him , together with all his family and all his partisans ...
... received a letter ad- dressed by the Court of Directors , not to the council generally , but to himself in particular . He was directed to remove Mahommed Reza Khan , to arrest him , together with all his family and all his partisans ...
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... received no intimation of these measures till the prisoners were on their road to Calcutta . The inquiry into the conduct of the minister was postponed on different pretences . He was detained in an easy confinement during many months ...
... received no intimation of these measures till the prisoners were on their road to Calcutta . The inquiry into the conduct of the minister was postponed on different pretences . He was detained in an easy confinement during many months ...
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... the sum of almost all the instructions that Hastings ever received from home . Now these instructions , being interpreted , mean simply , " Be the father and the oppressor of the people ; be just 20 WARREN HASTINGS .
... the sum of almost all the instructions that Hastings ever received from home . Now these instructions , being interpreted , mean simply , " Be the father and the oppressor of the people ; be just 20 WARREN HASTINGS .
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