Warren HastingsCambridge University Press, 1896 - 179 pages |
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Page 3
... began life as overseer of an estate in Jamaica , saw the ills of slavery , and at the age of twenty - four went to Sierra Leone in the service of company formed to oppose free labour to slave labour . After some years Zachary Macaulay ...
... began life as overseer of an estate in Jamaica , saw the ills of slavery , and at the age of twenty - four went to Sierra Leone in the service of company formed to oppose free labour to slave labour . After some years Zachary Macaulay ...
Page 17
... began to reflect that we were bound to discharge towards them the duties of rulers . During that inter- val the business of a servant of the Company was simply to wring out of the natives a hundred or two hundred thousand pounds as ...
... began to reflect that we were bound to discharge towards them the duties of rulers . During that inter- val the business of a servant of the Company was simply to wring out of the natives a hundred or two hundred thousand pounds as ...
Page 20
... began to look again towards India . He had little to attach him to England ; and his pecuniary embarrassments were great . He solicited his old masters the Directors for employment . They acceded to his request , with high compliments ...
... began to look again towards India . He had little to attach him to England ; and his pecuniary embarrassments were great . He solicited his old masters the Directors for employment . They acceded to his request , with high compliments ...
Page 57
... began to pour in . They were eagerly welcomed by the majority , who , to do them justice , were men of too much honour knowingly to countenance false accusations , but who were not sufficiently acquainted with the East to be aware that ...
... began to pour in . They were eagerly welcomed by the majority , who , to do them justice , were men of too much honour knowingly to countenance false accusations , but who were not sufficiently acquainted with the East to be aware that ...
Page 63
... and powerful before the British em- pire in India began to exist , and to whom , in the old times , governors and members of council , then mere commercial factors , had paid court for protection . The WARREN HASTINGS . 63.
... and powerful before the British em- pire in India began to exist , and to whom , in the old times , governors and members of council , then mere commercial factors , had paid court for protection . The WARREN HASTINGS . 63.
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