Warren HastingsCambridge University Press, 1896 - 179 pages |
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Page 19
... interest and principal . He remained four years in England . Of his life at this time very little is known . But it has been asserted , and is highly probable , that liberal studies and the society of men of letters occupied a great ...
... interest and principal . He remained four years in England . Of his life at this time very little is known . But it has been asserted , and is highly probable , that liberal studies and the society of men of letters occupied a great ...
Page 68
... interests are at stake , and his strongest passions excited , will , as against himself , be more just than the sworn dispensers of justice . To take an analogous case from the history of our own island ; suppose that Lord Stafford ...
... interests are at stake , and his strongest passions excited , will , as against himself , be more just than the sworn dispensers of justice . To take an analogous case from the history of our own island ; suppose that Lord Stafford ...
Page 77
... interests in every quarter were now exposed , made both Lord North and the Company unwilling to part with a Governor whose talents , experience , and resolution , enmity itself was compelled to acknowledge . The crisis was indeed ...
... interests in every quarter were now exposed , made both Lord North and the Company unwilling to part with a Governor whose talents , experience , and resolution , enmity itself was compelled to acknowledge . The crisis was indeed ...
Page 80
... interest , to move an army across the peninsula of India , and to form a close alliance with the chief of the house of Bonsla , who ruled Berar , and who , in power and dignity , was inferior to none of the Mahratta princes . The army ...
... interest , to move an army across the peninsula of India , and to form a close alliance with the chief of the house of Bonsla , who ruled Berar , and who , in power and dignity , was inferior to none of the Mahratta princes . The army ...
Page 121
... interest to show , if possible , that the government and patronage of our Oriental empire might , with advantage , be transferred . to themselves . The votes , therefore , which , in conse- quence of the reports made by the two ...
... interest to show , if possible , that the government and patronage of our Oriental empire might , with advantage , be transferred . to themselves . The votes , therefore , which , in conse- quence of the reports made by the two ...
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