Warren HastingsCambridge University Press, 1896 - 179 pages |
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Page 4
... obtained also a prize offered to the Junior Bachelor of his College who should write the best essay on the " Conduct and Character of William the Third . " He was brilliant among fellow students as a writer and a talker , and he never ...
... obtained also a prize offered to the Junior Bachelor of his College who should write the best essay on the " Conduct and Character of William the Third . " He was brilliant among fellow students as a writer and a talker , and he never ...
Page 6
... obtained the appointment which confirmed the inclination of his mind towards Indian affairs . One seat of the Supreme Council of India was ap- pointed to be held by a nominee of the Crown who was not a servant of the Company . This was ...
... obtained the appointment which confirmed the inclination of his mind towards Indian affairs . One seat of the Supreme Council of India was ap- pointed to be held by a nominee of the Crown who was not a servant of the Company . This was ...
Page 8
... obtained a place in the Customs . The second son , Pynaston , an idle worthless boy , married before he was sixteen , lost uis wife in two years , and died in the West Indies , leaving to the care of his unfortunate father a little ...
... obtained a place in the Customs . The second son , Pynaston , an idle worthless boy , married before he was sixteen , lost uis wife in two years , and died in the West Indies , leaving to the care of his unfortunate father a little ...
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... obtain for the lad a writership in the service of the East India Company . Whether the young adventurer , when once shipped off , made a fortune , or died of a liver complaint , he equally ceased to be a burden to anybody . Warren was ...
... obtain for the lad a writership in the service of the East India Company . Whether the young adventurer , when once shipped off , made a fortune , or died of a liver complaint , he equally ceased to be a burden to anybody . Warren was ...
Page 14
... of Fulda , near the mouth of the Hoogley . They ere naturally desirous to obtain full information re- pecting the proceedings of the Nabob ; and no person seemed so likely to furnish it as Hastings , who 14 WARREN HASTINGS .
... of Fulda , near the mouth of the Hoogley . They ere naturally desirous to obtain full information re- pecting the proceedings of the Nabob ; and no person seemed so likely to furnish it as Hastings , who 14 WARREN HASTINGS .
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