Warren HastingsChautauqua Press, 1886 - 183 pages |
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Page 225
... things had passed away ; the new or- der of things was not yet formed . All was transi- tion confusion , obscurity . Everybody kept his as head he best might , and scrambled for whatever he could get . There have been similar seasons in ...
... things had passed away ; the new or- der of things was not yet formed . All was transi- tion confusion , obscurity . Everybody kept his as head he best might , and scrambled for whatever he could get . There have been similar seasons in ...
Page 258
... things were to him as the objects amidst which his own life had been passed , as the objects which lay on the road ... thing as oppression in the streets of London . He saw that Hastings had been guilty of some most unjustifiable acts ...
... things were to him as the objects amidst which his own life had been passed , as the objects which lay on the road ... thing as oppression in the streets of London . He saw that Hastings had been guilty of some most unjustifiable acts ...
Page 261
... thing which he could do would be to make an eloquent , forcible , and affecting ora- tion at the bar of the House : but ... things , he declared that , though he still thought the Rohilla war un- justifiable , he considered the services ...
... thing which he could do would be to make an eloquent , forcible , and affecting ora- tion at the bar of the House : but ... things , he declared that , though he still thought the Rohilla war un- justifiable , he considered the services ...
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