Warren HastingsCambridge University Press, 1896 - 179 pages |
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Page 121
... Commons sat on Eastern affairs . In one Edmund Burke took the lead . The other was under the presidency of the able and versatile Henry Dundas , then Lord Advocate of Scotland . Great as are the changes which , during the last sixty ...
... Commons sat on Eastern affairs . In one Edmund Burke took the lead . The other was under the presidency of the able and versatile Henry Dundas , then Lord Advocate of Scotland . Great as are the changes which , during the last sixty ...
Page 137
... Commons of a motion seriously affecting a gentleman lately re- turned from India . The session , however , was then so far advanced , that it was impossible to enter on so extensive and important a subject . Hastings , it is clear , was ...
... Commons of a motion seriously affecting a gentleman lately re- turned from India . The session , however , was then so far advanced , that it was impossible to enter on so extensive and important a subject . Hastings , it is clear , was ...
Page 138
... Commons . To the defence of Clive , therefore , nothing was wanting , neither learning nor knowledge of the world , neither forensic acuteness nor that eloquence which charms political assemblies . Hastings intrusted his interests to a ...
... Commons . To the defence of Clive , therefore , nothing was wanting , neither learning nor knowledge of the world , neither forensic acuteness nor that eloquence which charms political assemblies . Hastings intrusted his interests to a ...
Page 141
... Commons . That resolution was , in- deed , unjust ; but till it was rescinded , could the minister advise the King to bestow any mark of appro- bation on the person censured ? If Major Scott is to be trusted , Mr. Pitt declared that ...
... Commons . That resolution was , in- deed , unjust ; but till it was rescinded , could the minister advise the King to bestow any mark of appro- bation on the person censured ? If Major Scott is to be trusted , Mr. Pitt declared that ...
Page 143
... Commons with paintings of the bleeding Rohillas , of Nuncomar swinging , of Cheyte Sing letting himself down to the Ganges . Another , in an exquisitely humorous parody of Virgil's third eclogue , propounded the question , what that ...
... Commons with paintings of the bleeding Rohillas , of Nuncomar swinging , of Cheyte Sing letting himself down to the Ganges . Another , in an exquisitely humorous parody of Virgil's third eclogue , propounded the question , what that ...
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