Warren HastingsChautauqua Press, 1886 - 183 pages |
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Page 165
... East were regarded by other servants of the Company merely as the means of communicating with weavers and money - changers , his enlarged and accomplished mind sought in Asiatic learning for new forms of intellectual enjoyment , and for ...
... East were regarded by other servants of the Company merely as the means of communicating with weavers and money - changers , his enlarged and accomplished mind sought in Asiatic learning for new forms of intellectual enjoyment , and for ...
Page 256
... East . After his usual fashion , he mistook his malevolence for virtue , nursed it , as preachers tell us that we ought to nurse our good dispositions , and paraded it , on all occasions , with Pharisaical ostentation . The zeal of ...
... East . After his usual fashion , he mistook his malevolence for virtue , nursed it , as preachers tell us that we ought to nurse our good dispositions , and paraded it , on all occasions , with Pharisaical ostentation . The zeal of ...
Page 266
... East India Company and of its servants . If he were absolved by the Commons , seated among the Lords , admitted to ... Eastern affairs ? Was it not possible that he might become a formidable rival in the cabinet ? It had probably got ...
... East India Company and of its servants . If he were absolved by the Commons , seated among the Lords , admitted to ... Eastern affairs ? Was it not possible that he might become a formidable rival in the cabinet ? It had probably got ...
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