Warren HastingsChautauqua Press, 1886 - 183 pages |
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Page 161
... tion , if we may compare small things with great , such as the city of London bears to West- minster . Moorshedabad was the abode of the prince who , by an authority ostensibly derived from the Mogul , but really independent , ruled the ...
... tion , if we may compare small things with great , such as the city of London bears to West- minster . Moorshedabad was the abode of the prince who , by an authority ostensibly derived from the Mogul , but really independent , ruled the ...
Page 166
... tion and flattered by the attentions of Hastings . The situation was indeed perilous . No place is so propitious to the formation either of close friendships or of deadly enmities as an India- man . There are very few people who do not ...
... tion and flattered by the attentions of Hastings . The situation was indeed perilous . No place is so propitious to the formation either of close friendships or of deadly enmities as an India- man . There are very few people who do not ...
Page 275
... tion during the whole time . It was said that fifty guineas had been paid for a single ticket . Sheridan , when he concluded , contrived , with a knowledge of stage effect which his father His might have envied , to sink back , as if ...
... tion during the whole time . It was said that fifty guineas had been paid for a single ticket . Sheridan , when he concluded , contrived , with a knowledge of stage effect which his father His might have envied , to sink back , as if ...
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