Warren HastingsCambridge University Press, 1896 - 179 pages |
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... tion , Elijah Impey . We know little about their school - days . But we think we may safely venture to guess that , whenever Hastings wished to play any trick more than usually naughty , he hired Impey with a tart or a ball to act as ...
... tion , Elijah Impey . We know little about their school - days . But we think we may safely venture to guess that , whenever Hastings wished to play any trick more than usually naughty , he hired Impey with a tart or a ball to act as ...
Page 17
... tion , at a later period , they found . But at first English power came among them unaccompanied by English morality . There was an interval between the time at which they became our subjects , and the time at which we began to reflect ...
... tion , at a later period , they found . But at first English power came among them unaccompanied by English morality . There was an interval between the time at which they became our subjects , and the time at which we began to reflect ...
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... tion , and who was particularly connected with Oxford . The interview appears to have left on Johnson's mind a most favourable impression of the talents and attain- ments of his visitor . Long after , when Hastings was ruling the ...
... tion , and who was particularly connected with Oxford . The interview appears to have left on Johnson's mind a most favourable impression of the talents and attain- ments of his visitor . Long after , when Hastings was ruling the ...
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... tion would have been considered by the Mahommedans of India as a monstrous impiety . The Prince of Oude , though he held the power , did not venture to use the style of sovereignty . To the appellation of Nabob or Viceroy , he added ...
... tion would have been considered by the Mahommedans of India as a monstrous impiety . The Prince of Oude , though he held the power , did not venture to use the style of sovereignty . To the appellation of Nabob or Viceroy , he added ...
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... tion , that the only natives of India to whom the word " gentleman " can with perfect propriety be applied , are to be found among the Rohillas . Whatever we may think of the morality of Hastings , He it cannot be denied that the ...
... tion , that the only natives of India to whom the word " gentleman " can with perfect propriety be applied , are to be found among the Rohillas . Whatever we may think of the morality of Hastings , He it cannot be denied that the ...
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