Warren HastingsCambridge University Press, 1896 - 179 pages |
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... lands , sent his plate to the mint at Oxford , joined the royal army , and , after spend- ing half his property in the cause of King Charles , was glad to ransom himself by making over most of the remaining half to Speaker Lenthal . The ...
... lands , sent his plate to the mint at Oxford , joined the royal army , and , after spend- ing half his property in the cause of King Charles , was glad to ransom himself by making over most of the remaining half to Speaker Lenthal . The ...
Page 9
... lands which his ancestors had possessed , and which had passed into the hands of strangers , filled his young brain with wild fancies and projects . He loved to hear stories of the wealth and greatness of his progenitors , of their ...
... lands which his ancestors had possessed , and which had passed into the hands of strangers , filled his young brain with wild fancies and projects . He loved to hear stories of the wealth and greatness of his progenitors , of their ...
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... overboard . Most passengers find some resource in eating twice as many meals as on land . But the great devices for killing the time are quarrelling and flirting . The facilities for both these exciting pursuits are WARREN HASTINGS . 21.
... overboard . Most passengers find some resource in eating twice as many meals as on land . But the great devices for killing the time are quarrelling and flirting . The facilities for both these exciting pursuits are WARREN HASTINGS . 21.
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... land . Hastings fell ill . The Baroness nursed him with womanly tenderness , gave him his medicines with her own hand , and even sat up in his cabin while he slept . Long before the Duke of Grafton reached Madras , Hastings was in love ...
... land . Hastings fell ill . The Baroness nursed him with womanly tenderness , gave him his medicines with her own hand , and even sat up in his cabin while he slept . Long before the Duke of Grafton reached Madras , Hastings was in love ...
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... land , fiefs of the spear , if we may use an expression drawn from an analogous state of things , in that fertile plain through which the Ramgunga flows from the snowy heights of Kumaon to join the Ganges . In the general confusion ...
... land , fiefs of the spear , if we may use an expression drawn from an analogous state of things , in that fertile plain through which the Ramgunga flows from the snowy heights of Kumaon to join the Ganges . In the general confusion ...
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