Warren HastingsChautauqua Press, 1886 - 183 pages |
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Page 163
... hundred or two hundred thousand pounds as speedily as possible , that he might re- turn home before his constitution had suffered from the heat , to marry a peer's daughter , to buy rotten boroughs in Cornwall , and to give balls in St ...
... hundred or two hundred thousand pounds as speedily as possible , that he might re- turn home before his constitution had suffered from the heat , to marry a peer's daughter , to buy rotten boroughs in Cornwall , and to give balls in St ...
Page 179
... hundred and twenty thousand pounds a year to half that sum . The Company had bound itself to pay near three hundred thousand pounds a year to the Great Mogul , as a mark of homage for the provinces which he had intrusted to their care ...
... hundred and twenty thousand pounds a year to half that sum . The Company had bound itself to pay near three hundred thousand pounds a year to the Great Mogul , as a mark of homage for the provinces which he had intrusted to their care ...
Page 270
... hundred and seventy lords , three fourths of the Upper House as the Upper House then was , walked in solemn order from their usual place of assembling to the tribunal . The junior Baron present led the way , George Eliott , Lord ...
... hundred and seventy lords , three fourths of the Upper House as the Upper House then was , walked in solemn order from their usual place of assembling to the tribunal . The junior Baron present led the way , George Eliott , Lord ...
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