Warren HastingsCambridge University Press, 1896 - 179 pages |
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... India Company . In January , 1833 , he en- tered Parliament as member for Leeds ; and in De- cember he obtained the appointment which confirmed the inclination of his mind towards Indian affairs . One seat of the Supreme Council of India ...
... India Company . In January , 1833 , he en- tered Parliament as member for Leeds ; and in De- cember he obtained the appointment which confirmed the inclination of his mind towards Indian affairs . One seat of the Supreme Council of India ...
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... India , the shy and secluded poet could imagine to himself Hastings the Governor - General only as the Hastings with whom he had rowed on the Thames and played in the cloister , and refused to believe that so good - tempered a fellow ...
... India , the shy and secluded poet could imagine to himself Hastings the Governor - General only as the Hastings with whom he had rowed on the Thames and played in the cloister , and refused to believe that so good - tempered a fellow ...
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... India Company . Whether the young adventurer , when once shipped off , made a fortune , or died of a liver complaint , he equally ceased to be a burden to anybody . Warren was accordingly removed from Westminster School , and placed for ...
... India Company . Whether the young adventurer , when once shipped off , made a fortune , or died of a liver complaint , he equally ceased to be a burden to anybody . Warren was accordingly removed from Westminster School , and placed for ...
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... India the encroaching policy of Dupleix had transformed the servants of the 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 ...
... India the encroaching policy of Dupleix had transformed the servants of the 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 ...
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... India Company a stain not wholly effaced by many years of just and humano government . Mr. Vansittart , the Governor , was at the head of a new and anomalous empire . On one side was a band of Eng- lish functionaries , daring ...
... India Company a stain not wholly effaced by many years of just and humano government . Mr. Vansittart , the Governor , was at the head of a new and anomalous empire . On one side was a band of Eng- lish functionaries , daring ...
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