Warren HastingsCambridge University Press, 1896 - 179 pages |
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Page 20
... expected from the munificence of the Company ; and professors thoroughly competent to interpret Hafiz and Ferdusi were to be engaged in the East . Hastings called on Johnson , with the hope , as it should seem , of interesting in this ...
... expected from the munificence of the Company ; and professors thoroughly competent to interpret Hafiz and Ferdusi were to be engaged in the East . Hastings called on Johnson , with the hope , as it should seem , of interesting in this ...
Page 54
... expected a salute of twenty - one guns from the batteries of Fort William . Hastings allowed them only seventeen . They landed in ill - humour . The first civilities were exchanged with cold reserve . On the morrow com- menced 54 WARREN ...
... expected a salute of twenty - one guns from the batteries of Fort William . Hastings allowed them only seventeen . They landed in ill - humour . The first civilities were exchanged with cold reserve . On the morrow com- menced 54 WARREN ...
Page 82
... expected from so eminent a member of so noble a profession . Still he was perhaps the ablest officer that was then to be found in the British army . his name was great and his is he yet forgotten by them . Among the native soldiers ...
... expected from so eminent a member of so noble a profession . Still he was perhaps the ablest officer that was then to be found in the British army . his name was great and his is he yet forgotten by them . Among the native soldiers ...
Page 87
... expected from this strange tribunal . It came from beyond the black water , as the people of India , with mysterious horror , call the sea . It consisted of judges not one of whom was familiar with the usages of the millions over whom ...
... expected from this strange tribunal . It came from beyond the black water , as the people of India , with mysterious horror , call the sea . It consisted of judges not one of whom was familiar with the usages of the millions over whom ...
Page 97
... expected on the coast of Coro- mandel . England , beset by enemies on every side , was in no condition to protect such remote depen- dencies . Then it was that the fertile genius and serene courage of Hastings achieved their most signal ...
... expected on the coast of Coro- mandel . England , beset by enemies on every side , was in no condition to protect such remote depen- dencies . Then it was that the fertile genius and serene courage of Hastings achieved their most signal ...
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