Warren HastingsLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852 - 106 pages |
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... side was a band of English functionaries , daring , intelligent , eager to be rich . On the other side was a great native population , helpless , timid , accustomed to crouch under oppression . To keep the stronger race from preying on ...
... side was a band of English functionaries , daring , intelligent , eager to be rich . On the other side was a great native population , helpless , timid , accustomed to crouch under oppression . To keep the stronger race from preying on ...
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... side of the great mountain ridge ; and it had always been their practice to recruit their army from the hardy and valiant race from which their own illustrious house sprang . Among the military adven- turers who were allured to the ...
... side of the great mountain ridge ; and it had always been their practice to recruit their army from the hardy and valiant race from which their own illustrious house sprang . Among the military adven- turers who were allured to the ...
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... side . Hastings was supported by Barwell . They had not always been friends . But the arrival of the new members of Council from England naturally had the effect of uniting the old servants of the Company . Clavering , Monson , and ...
... side . Hastings was supported by Barwell . They had not always been friends . But the arrival of the new members of Council from England naturally had the effect of uniting the old servants of the Company . Clavering , Monson , and ...
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... side with the most dis- tinguished member of their own body against a clerk from the war - office , who , profoundly ignorant of the native languages and of the native character , took on himself to regulate every department of the ...
... side with the most dis- tinguished member of their own body against a clerk from the war - office , who , profoundly ignorant of the native languages and of the native character , took on himself to regulate every department of the ...
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... side , Barwell and the Governor - General on the other ; and the Governor - General had the casting vote . Hastings , who had been during two years destitute of all power and patronage , became at once absolute . He instantly proceeded ...
... side , Barwell and the Governor - General on the other ; and the Governor - General had the casting vote . Hastings , who had been during two years destitute of all power and patronage , became at once absolute . He instantly proceeded ...
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