Warren HastingsCambridge University Press, 1896 - 179 pages |
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... nature , caused Lord Lyndhurst to regard him as the most promising of the young Whigs . Lord Lyndhurst made him , in 1828 , a Commissioner of Bankruptcy . With this appoint- ment and about £ 300 a year from his fellowship , and £ 200 a ...
... nature , caused Lord Lyndhurst to regard him as the most promising of the young Whigs . Lord Lyndhurst made him , in 1828 , a Commissioner of Bankruptcy . With this appoint- ment and about £ 300 a year from his fellowship , and £ 200 a ...
Page 11
... natures may be hurried by the rage of conflict and the lust of dominion . Hastings had another associate at Westminster of whom we shall have occasion to make frequent men- tion , Elijah Impey . We know little about their school - days ...
... natures may be hurried by the rage of conflict and the lust of dominion . Hastings had another associate at Westminster of whom we shall have occasion to make frequent men- tion , Elijah Impey . We know little about their school - days ...
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... natural , broke loose from all restraint ; and then was seen what we believe to be the most frightful of all spectacles , the strength of civilisation without its mercy . To all other despotism there is a check , imperfect , indeed ...
... natural , broke loose from all restraint ; and then was seen what we believe to be the most frightful of all spectacles , the strength of civilisation without its mercy . To all other despotism there is a check , imperfect , indeed ...
Page 28
... nature only as it appears in our island . What the Italian is to the Englishman , what the Hindoo is to the Italian ... natural defence of the weak are 1 more familiar to this subtle race than to the Ionian 28 WARREN HASTINGS .
... nature only as it appears in our island . What the Italian is to the Englishman , what the Hindoo is to the Italian ... natural defence of the weak are 1 more familiar to this subtle race than to the Ionian 28 WARREN HASTINGS .
Page 32
... authority of their superiors could hardly compose . Widely as they differed in most points , they resembled each other in this , that both were men of unforgiving natures . To Mahoinmed Reza Khan 32 WARREN HASTINGS .
... authority of their superiors could hardly compose . Widely as they differed in most points , they resembled each other in this , that both were men of unforgiving natures . To Mahoinmed Reza Khan 32 WARREN HASTINGS .
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