Warren HastingsCambridge University Press, 1896 - 179 pages |
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Page 21
... reason . She was interested by the conversation and flattered by the attentions of Hastings . The situation was indeed perilous . No place is so propitious to the formation either of close friendships or of deadly enmities as an ...
... reason . She was interested by the conversation and flattered by the attentions of Hastings . The situation was indeed perilous . No place is so propitious to the formation either of close friendships or of deadly enmities as an ...
Page 40
... reason to believe that , at a period anterior to the dawn of regular history , the people who spoke the rich and flexible Sanscrit came from regions lying far beyond the Hyphasis and the Hystaspes , and imposed their yoke on the ...
... reason to believe that , at a period anterior to the dawn of regular history , the people who spoke the rich and flexible Sanscrit came from regions lying far beyond the Hyphasis and the Hystaspes , and imposed their yoke on the ...
Page 52
... reasons for believing that Francis was Junius is the moral resemblance be- tween the two men . It is not difficult , from the letters which , under various signatures , are known to have been written by Junius , and from his dealings ...
... reasons for believing that Francis was Junius is the moral resemblance be- tween the two men . It is not difficult , from the letters which , under various signatures , are known to have been written by Junius , and from his dealings ...
Page 68
... reason that judges are ap- pointed is , that even a good man cannot be trusted to decide a cause in which he is himself concerned . Not a day passes on which an honest prosecutor does not ask for what none but a dishonest tribunal would ...
... reason that judges are ap- pointed is , that even a good man cannot be trusted to decide a cause in which he is himself concerned . Not a day passes on which an honest prosecutor does not ask for what none but a dishonest tribunal would ...
Page 106
... reason for the concealment . Public spirit , or the fear of detection , at last determined him to with- stand the temptation . He paid over the bribe to the Company's treasury , and insisted that the Rajah should instantly comply with ...
... reason for the concealment . Public spirit , or the fear of detection , at last determined him to with- stand the temptation . He paid over the bribe to the Company's treasury , and insisted that the Rajah should instantly comply with ...
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