Warren HastingsCambridge University Press, 1896 - 179 pages |
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... sent to Trinity College , Cam- bridge , where he twice gained the Chancellor's medal for English verse . He obtained also a prize offered to the Junior Bachelor of his College who should write the best essay on the " Conduct and ...
... sent to Trinity College , Cam- bridge , where he twice gained the Chancellor's medal for English verse . He obtained also a prize offered to the Junior Bachelor of his College who should write the best essay on the " Conduct and ...
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... 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 old ...
... 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 old ...
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... sent to the village school , where he learned his letters on the same bench with the sons of the peasantry ; nor did anything in his garb or fare indicate that his life was to take a widely different course from that of the young ...
... sent to the village school , where he learned his letters on the same bench with the sons of the peasantry ; nor did anything in his garb or fare indicate that his life was to take a widely different course from that of the young ...
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... sent to a school at Newington , where he was well taught but ill fed . He always attributed the smallness of his stature to the hard and scanty fare of this seminary . At ten he was removed to Westminster School , then flourishing under ...
... sent to a school at Newington , where he was well taught but ill fed . He always attributed the smallness of his stature to the hard and scanty fare of this seminary . At ten he was removed to Westminster School , then flourishing under ...
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... sent up the country to Cossim- bazar , a town which lies on the Hoogley , about a mile from Moorshedabad , and which then bore to Moorshe- dabad a relation , if we may compare small things with great , such as the city of London bears ...
... sent up the country to Cossim- bazar , a town which lies on the Hoogley , about a mile from Moorshedabad , and which then bore to Moorshe- dabad a relation , if we may compare small things with great , such as the city of London bears ...
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