Prose and PoetryR. Hart-Davis, 1952 - 864 pages |
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Page 407
... Hastings might have to encounter , he was never molested by accusations from natives of India . It is a remarkable circumstance that one of the letters of Hastings to Dr. Johnson bears date a very few hours after the death of Nun- comar ...
... Hastings might have to encounter , he was never molested by accusations from natives of India . It is a remarkable circumstance that one of the letters of Hastings to Dr. Johnson bears date a very few hours after the death of Nun- comar ...
Page 418
... Hastings , and the people of India . Whether it was right in Impey to demand or to accept a price for powers which , if they really belonged to him , he could not abdicate , which , if they did not belong to him , he ought never to have ...
... Hastings , and the people of India . Whether it was right in Impey to demand or to accept a price for powers which , if they really belonged to him , he could not abdicate , which , if they did not belong to him , he ought never to have ...
Page 449
... Hastings had subsequently rendered to the state as sufficient to atone even for so great an offence . Pitt did not speak , but voted with Dundas ; and Hastings was absolved by a hundred and nineteen votes against sixty - seven . Hastings ...
... Hastings had subsequently rendered to the state as sufficient to atone even for so great an offence . Pitt did not speak , but voted with Dundas ; and Hastings was absolved by a hundred and nineteen votes against sixty - seven . Hastings ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND SELECTED PASSAGES II | 13 |
ESSAYS | 233 |
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