Warren HastingsLongmans, Green & Company, 1889 - 208 pages |
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Page viii
... sent 257. to relieve a clergyman's distress . ' Such was his high and simple nature ' writes his nephew and bio- grapher , Mr. George Otto Trevelyan , ' that it may well be doubted whether it ever crossed his mind that to live wholly ...
... sent 257. to relieve a clergyman's distress . ' Such was his high and simple nature ' writes his nephew and bio- grapher , Mr. George Otto Trevelyan , ' that it may well be doubted whether it ever crossed his mind that to live wholly ...
Page xiv
... sent him to seize Arcot , which he promptly did , although the opposing garrison was much larger than his own force . It had been rumoured , how- ever , that his five hundred men had marched with perfect fear- lessness through a sharp ...
... sent him to seize Arcot , which he promptly did , although the opposing garrison was much larger than his own force . It had been rumoured , how- ever , that his five hundred men had marched with perfect fear- lessness through a sharp ...
Page xvii
... sent to school in Newington , London . W. H. removed to Westminster School . Dupleix became governor of French India . W. H. arrived in Bengal as a clerk . Clive gained the victory of Arcot . W. H. sent to Cossimbazar to trade for the ...
... sent to school in Newington , London . W. H. removed to Westminster School . Dupleix became governor of French India . W. H. arrived in Bengal as a clerk . Clive gained the victory of Arcot . W. H. sent to Cossimbazar to trade for the ...
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... sent him as a man of stainless virtue is to make him ridiculous ; and from regard for his memory , if from no other feeling , his friends would have done well to lend no countenance to such adulation . We believe that , if he were now ...
... sent him as a man of stainless virtue is to make him ridiculous ; and from regard for his memory , if from no other feeling , his friends would have done well to lend no countenance to such adulation . We believe that , if he were now ...
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... sent his plate to the mint at Oxford , joined the royal army , and , after spending half his property in the cause of King Charles , was glad to ransom himself 15 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 spending half his property in the cause of King Charles , was glad to ransom himself 15 by making over most of the remaining half to Speaker Lenthal . The old ...
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