Warren HastingsCambridge University Press, 1896 - 179 pages |
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... honour . He came back in 1838. His essay on Lord Clive appeared in the Edinburgh Review in January , 1840 ; this on Hastings in October , 1841. Its date was the year be- fore the publication of the Lays of Ancient Rome , and six years ...
... honour . He came back in 1838. His essay on Lord Clive appeared in the Edinburgh Review in January , 1840 ; this on Hastings in October , 1841. Its date was the year be- fore the publication of the Lays of Ancient Rome , and six years ...
Page 19
... honour that , in days when the languages of the East were regarded by other servants of the Company merely as the means of communicating with weavers and money - changers , his enlarged and accomplished mind sought in Asiatic learning ...
... honour that , in days when the languages of the East were regarded by other servants of the Company merely as the means of communicating with weavers and money - changers , his enlarged and accomplished mind sought in Asiatic learning ...
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... honour . An attachment sprang up , which was soon strengthened by events such as could hardly have occurred on land . Hastings fell ill . The Baroness nursed him with womanly tenderness , gave him his medicines with her own hand , and ...
... honour . An attachment sprang up , which was soon strengthened by events such as could hardly have occurred on land . Hastings fell ill . The Baroness nursed him with womanly tenderness , gave him his medicines with her own hand , and ...
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... been regarded as a corrupt and greedy politician . But , tried by the lower standard of Indian morality , he might be considered as a man of integrity and honour . His competitor was a Hindoo Brahmin whose name has , WARREN HASTINGS . 23 ...
... been regarded as a corrupt and greedy politician . But , tried by the lower standard of Indian morality , he might be considered as a man of integrity and honour . His competitor was a Hindoo Brahmin whose name has , WARREN HASTINGS . 23 ...
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... who would see his country , overrun , his house laid in ashes , his children murdered or dis- honoured , without having the spirit to strike one blow , has yet been known to endure torture with the firmness WARREN HASTINGS . 29.
... who would see his country , overrun , his house laid in ashes , his children murdered or dis- honoured , without having the spirit to strike one blow , has yet been known to endure torture with the firmness WARREN HASTINGS . 29.
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