Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 3Hurd and Houghton, 1874 |
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Page 12
... mind sought in Asiatic learning for new forms of intellectual enjoyment , and for new views of government and society . Perhaps , like most persons who have paid much attention to de- partments of knowledge which lie out of the common ...
... mind sought in Asiatic learning for new forms of intellectual enjoyment , and for new views of government and society . Perhaps , like most persons who have paid much attention to de- partments of knowledge which lie out of the common ...
Page 15
... mind for a time to this depart- ment of business , which had been much neglected , since the servants of the Company had ceased to be clerks , and had become warriors and negotiators . In a very few months he effected an important re ...
... mind for a time to this depart- ment of business , which had been much neglected , since the servants of the Company had ceased to be clerks , and had become warriors and negotiators . In a very few months he effected an important re ...
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... mind so fertile as his , and so little restrained by conscientious scruples , speedily discovered several modes of relieving the financial embarrassments of the govern- ment . The allowance of the Nabob of Bengal was re duced at a ...
... mind so fertile as his , and so little restrained by conscientious scruples , speedily discovered several modes of relieving the financial embarrassments of the govern- ment . The allowance of the Nabob of Bengal was re duced at a ...
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... mind and body , and excused himself from joining the splendid assembly . But Hastings , whom , as it should seem , success in ambition and in love had put into high good- humour , would take no denial . He went himself 56 WARREN HASTINGS .
... mind and body , and excused himself from joining the splendid assembly . But Hastings , whom , as it should seem , success in ambition and in love had put into high good- humour , would take no denial . He went himself 56 WARREN HASTINGS .
Page 69
... mind burning with resentment , it might seem better to leave Bengal to the oppressors than to redeem it by enriching ... minds were so much embittered that they impat to each other nothing less than deliberate vil- lany . I do not ...
... mind burning with resentment , it might seem better to leave Bengal to the oppressors than to redeem it by enriching ... minds were so much embittered that they impat to each other nothing less than deliberate vil- lany . I do not ...
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