Warren HastingsCambridge University Press, 1896 - 179 pages |
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... a series of events scarcely paralleled in romance . The lords of the manor of Daylesford , in Worcester- shire , claimed to be considered as the heads of this war . distinguished family . The main stock , indeed WARREN HASTINGS ...
... a series of events scarcely paralleled in romance . The lords of the manor of Daylesford , in Worcester- shire , claimed to be considered as the heads of this war . distinguished family . The main stock , indeed WARREN HASTINGS ...
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... Daylesford family , though not ennobled , was wealthy and highly considered , till , about two hundred years ago ... Daylesford still remained in the family ; but it could no longer be kept up ; and in the following generation it was ...
... Daylesford family , though not ennobled , was wealthy and highly considered , till , about two hundred years ago ... Daylesford still remained in the family ; but it could no longer be kept up ; and in the following generation it was ...
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... all the turns of his eventful career , was never abandoned . He would recover the estate which had belonged to his fathers . He would be Hastings of Daylesford . This purpose , formed in infancy and poverty WARREN HASTINGS .
... all the turns of his eventful career , was never abandoned . He would recover the estate which had belonged to his fathers . He would be Hastings of Daylesford . This purpose , formed in infancy and poverty WARREN HASTINGS .
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... Daylesford . And when his long public life , so singularly chequered with good and evil , with glory and obloquy , had at length closed for ever , it was to Daylesford that he retired to die . When he was eight years old , his uncle ...
... Daylesford . And when his long public life , so singularly chequered with good and evil , with glory and obloquy , had at length closed for ever , it was to Daylesford that he retired to die . When he was eight years old , his uncle ...
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... Daylesford . At length , in the very year in which his trial commenced , the wish was accomplished ; and the domain , alienated more than seventy years before , returned to the descendant of its old lords . But the manor house was a ...
... Daylesford . At length , in the very year in which his trial commenced , the wish was accomplished ; and the domain , alienated more than seventy years before , returned to the descendant of its old lords . But the manor house was a ...
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