Warren HastingsCambridge University Press, 1896 - 179 pages |
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Page 16
... talents and energy of Clive . Vansittart , with fair in- tentions , was a feeble and inefficient ruler . The master caste , as was natural , broke loose from all restraint ; and then was seen what we believe to be the most frightful of ...
... talents and energy of Clive . Vansittart , with fair in- tentions , was a feeble and inefficient ruler . The master caste , as was natural , broke loose from all restraint ; and then was seen what we believe to be the most frightful of ...
Page 20
... talents and attain- ments of his visitor . Long after , when Hastings was ruling the immense population of British India , the old philosopher wrote to him , and referred in the most courtly terms , though with great dignity , to their ...
... talents and attain- ments of his visitor . Long after , when Hastings was ruling the immense population of British India , the old philosopher wrote to him , and referred in the most courtly terms , though with great dignity , to their ...
Page 28
... talents , and experience . Of his moral character it is difficult to give a notion to those who are acquainted with human nature only as it appears in our island . What the Italian is to the Englishman , what the Hindoo is to the ...
... talents , and experience . Of his moral character it is difficult to give a notion to those who are acquainted with human nature only as it appears in our island . What the Italian is to the Englishman , what the Hindoo is to the ...
Page 30
... talents and influence had not only procured his liberation , but had obtained for him a certain degree of consideration even among the British rulers of his country . Clive was extremely unwilling to place a Mussulman at the head of the ...
... talents and influence had not only procured his liberation , but had obtained for him a certain degree of consideration even among the British rulers of his country . Clive was extremely unwilling to place a Mussulman at the head of the ...
Page 48
... talents . In less than two years after he assumed the government , he had , without imposing any additional burdens on the people subject to his authority , added about four hundred and fifty thousand pounds to the annual income of the ...
... talents . In less than two years after he assumed the government , he had , without imposing any additional burdens on the people subject to his authority , added about four hundred and fifty thousand pounds to the annual income of the ...
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