Warren HastingsLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852 - 106 pages |
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Page 4
... remained in the family ; but it could no longer be kept up ; and in the following generation it was sold to a merchant of London . Before this transfer took place , the last Hastings of Daylesford had presented his second son to the ...
... remained in the family ; but it could no longer be kept up ; and in the following generation it was sold to a merchant of London . Before this transfer took place , the last Hastings of Daylesford had presented his second son to the ...
Page 8
... remained at Moorshedabad till the year 1761 , when he be- came a member of Council , and was consequently forced to reside at Calcutta . This was during the interval between Clive's first and second administration , an interval which ...
... remained at Moorshedabad till the year 1761 , when he be- came a member of Council , and was consequently forced to reside at Calcutta . This was during the interval between Clive's first and second administration , an interval which ...
Page 10
... remained four years in England . Of his life at this time very little is known . But it has been asserted , and is highly probable , that liberal studies and the society of men of letters occupied a great part of his time . It is to be ...
... remained four years in England . Of his life at this time very little is known . But it has been asserted , and is highly probable , that liberal studies and the society of men of letters occupied a great part of his time . It is to be ...
Page 32
... remained quiet . That bad man was stimulated at once by malignity , by avarice , and by ambition . Now was the time to be avenged on his old enemy , to wreak a grudge of seventeen years , to establish himself in the favour of the ...
... remained quiet . That bad man was stimulated at once by malignity , by avarice , and by ambition . Now was the time to be avenged on his old enemy , to wreak a grudge of seventeen years , to establish himself in the favour of the ...
Page 41
... remained no way of settling the dispute except an appeal to arms ; and from such an appeal Hastings , confident of his influence over his countrymen in India , was not inclined to shrink . He directed the officers of the garrison at ...
... remained no way of settling the dispute except an appeal to arms ; and from such an appeal Hastings , confident of his influence over his countrymen in India , was not inclined to shrink . He directed the officers of the garrison at ...
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