Warren HastingsCambridge University Press, 1896 - 179 pages |
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... English verse . He obtained also a prize offered to the Junior Bachelor of his College who should write the best essay on the " Conduct and Character of William the Third . " He was brilliant among fellow students as a writer and a ...
... English verse . He obtained also a prize offered to the Junior Bachelor of his College who should write the best essay on the " Conduct and Character of William the Third . " He was brilliant among fellow students as a writer and a ...
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... English Company , against their will , into diplomatists and generals . The war of the succession was raging in the Carnatic ; and the tide had been suddenly turned against the French by the genius of young Robert Clive . But in Bengal ...
... English Company , against their will , into diplomatists and generals . The war of the succession was raging in the Carnatic ; and the tide had been suddenly turned against the French by the genius of young Robert Clive . But in Bengal ...
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... English . The defenceless settlement of Cossimbazar , lying close to the tyrant's capital , was instantly seized . Hastings was sent a prisoner to Moorshedabad , but , in conse- quence of the humane intervention of the servants of the ...
... English . The defenceless settlement of Cossimbazar , lying close to the tyrant's capital , was instantly seized . Hastings was sent a prisoner to Moorshedabad , but , in conse- quence of the humane intervention of the servants of the ...
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... English power came among them unaccompanied by English morality . There was an interval between the time at which they became our subjects , and the time at which we began to reflect that we were bound to discharge towards them the ...
... English power came among them unaccompanied by English morality . There was an interval between the time at which they became our subjects , and the time at which we began to reflect that we were bound to discharge towards them the ...
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... English functionaries yielded in the time of Mr. Van- sittart were not temptations addressed to the ruling passions of Warren Hastings . He was not squeamish in pecuniary transactions ; but he was neither sordid nor rapacious . He was ...
... English functionaries yielded in the time of Mr. Van- sittart were not temptations addressed to the ruling passions of Warren Hastings . He was not squeamish in pecuniary transactions ; but he was neither sordid nor rapacious . He was ...
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