Warren HastingsCambridge University Press, 1896 - 179 pages |
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Page 10
... called him , was one of the masters . Churchill , Colman , Lloyd , Cumberland , Cowper , were among the students . With Cowper , Hastings formed a friendship which neither the lapse of time , nor a wide dissimilarity of opinions and ...
... called him , was one of the masters . Churchill , Colman , Lloyd , Cumberland , Cowper , were among the students . With Cowper , Hastings formed a friendship which neither the lapse of time , nor a wide dissimilarity of opinions and ...
Page 20
... called on Johnson , with the hope , as it should seem , of interesting in this project a man who enjoyed the highest literary reputa- tion , and who was particularly connected with Oxford . The interview appears to have left on ...
... called on Johnson , with the hope , as it should seem , of interesting in this project a man who enjoyed the highest literary reputa- tion , and who was particularly connected with Oxford . The interview appears to have left on ...
Page 21
... called himself a Baron ; but he was in distressed circumstances , and was going out to Madras as a portrait painter , in the hope of picking up some of the pagodas which were then lightly got and as lightly spent by the English in India ...
... called himself a Baron ; but he was in distressed circumstances , and was going out to Madras as a portrait painter , in the hope of picking up some of the pagodas which were then lightly got and as lightly spent by the English in India ...
Page 23
... called into council by his wife and his wife's lover . It was arranged that the Baroness should institute a suit for a divorce in the courts of Franconia , that the Baron should afford every facility to the proceeding , and that ...
... called into council by his wife and his wife's lover . It was arranged that the Baroness should institute a suit for a divorce in the courts of Franconia , that the Baron should afford every facility to the proceeding , and that ...
Page 38
... called upon to remit home another half million without fail . Hastings saw that it was absolutely necessary for him to disregard either the moral discourses or the pecuniary requisitions of his employers . Being forced to dis- obey them ...
... called upon to remit home another half million without fail . Hastings saw that it was absolutely necessary for him to disregard either the moral discourses or the pecuniary requisitions of his employers . Being forced to dis- obey them ...
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