Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 3Hurd and Houghton, 1874 |
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... hundred years ago , it was overwhelmed by the great ruin of the civil war . The Hastings of that time was a zealous cavalier . He raised money on his lands , sent his plate to the mint at Oxford , joined the royal army , and , after ...
... hundred years ago , it was overwhelmed by the great ruin of the civil war . The Hastings of that time was a zealous cavalier . He raised money on his lands , sent his plate to the mint at Oxford , joined the royal army , and , after ...
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... hundred thousand pounds as speedily as possible , that he might return home before his constitu- tion had suffered from the heat , to marry a peer's daughter , to buy rotten boroughs in Cornwall , and to give balls in St. James's Square ...
... hundred thousand pounds as speedily as possible , that he might return home before his constitu- tion had suffered from the heat , to marry a peer's daughter , to buy rotten boroughs in Cornwall , and to give balls in St. James's Square ...
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... hundred thousand pounds as speedily as possible , that he might return home before his constitu- tion had suffered from the heat , to marry a peer's daughter , to buy rotten boroughs in Cornwall , and to give balls in St. James's Square ...
... hundred thousand pounds as speedily as possible , that he might return home before his constitu- tion had suffered from the heat , to marry a peer's daughter , to buy rotten boroughs in Cornwall , and to give balls in St. James's Square ...
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... hundred thousand pounds sterling a year . The personal allowance of the nabob , amounting to more than three hundred thousand pounds a year , passed through the minister's hands , and was , to a great extent , at his dis- posal . The ...
... hundred thousand pounds sterling a year . The personal allowance of the nabob , amounting to more than three hundred thousand pounds a year , passed through the minister's hands , and was , to a great extent , at his dis- posal . The ...
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... hundred and twenty thousand pounds a year to half that sum . The Com- pany had bound itself to pay near three hundred thou- sand pounds a year to the Great Mogul , as a mark of homage for the provinces which he had intrusted to their ...
... hundred and twenty thousand pounds a year to half that sum . The Com- pany had bound itself to pay near three hundred thou- sand pounds a year to the Great Mogul , as a mark of homage for the provinces which he had intrusted to their ...
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