 During that interval the business of a servant of the Company was simply to wring out of the natives a hundred or two hundred thousand pounds as speedily as possible, that he might return home before his constitution had suffered from the heat, to marry...  Warren Hastings - Page 31by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, George Dickson - 1890 - 125 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 850 pages
...that we were bound to discharge towards them the duties of rulers. During that interval, the business of a servant of the Company was simply to wring out...Cornwall, and to give balls in St James's Square." In the meantime, while the Company's servants were accumulating fortunes in Bengal, the affairs of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 354 pages
...that we were bound to discharge towards them the duty of rulers. During that interval the business of a servant of the Company was simply to wring out...that he might return home before his constitution had sufiered from the heaty to marry a peer's daughter, to buy rotten boroughs in Cornwall, and to give... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 588 pages
...that we were bound to discharge towards them the duties of rulers. During that interval the business of a servant of the Company was simply to wring out...James's Square. Of the conduct of Hastings at this time littlejs known ; but the little that is known, and the circumstance_that little_is known, must be considered... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1088 pages
...bound to discharge towards them the duties of rulers. During that interval the business of a sen-ant of the Company was simply to wring out of the natives...before his constitution had suffered from the heat, to many a peer's daughter, to buy rotten boroughs in Cornwall, and to give balls in St. James's Square.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 360 pages
...that we were bound to discharge towards them the duty of rulers. During that interval the business of a servant of the Company was simply to wring out...time little is known ; but the little that is known, from the circumstance that little is known, must be considered as honourable to him. He could not protect... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1864 - 516 pages
...classe d'êtres ne peut supporter avec eux la comparaison1 — » Ce 1. During thatinterval the business of a servant of the Company was simply to wring out...constitution had suffered from the heat, to marry apeer's daughter, to buy rotten boroughs in Cornwall, and to give balls in Saint-James square.... There... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1864 - 514 pages
...d'êtres ne peut supporter avec eux la comparaison 1 — » Ce 1. During that interval the business of a servant of the Company was simply to wring out...as speedily as possible, that he might return home bcfore his constitution had sutTered from the heat, to marry apeer's daughter, to buy rotten boroughs... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 pages
...that we were bound to discharge towards them the duties of rulers. During that interval the business of a servant of the Company was simply to wring out...give balls in St. James's Square. Of the conduct of Ilastings at this time, little is known ; but the little that is known, and the circumstance that little... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 44 pages
...his readers, Macanlay describes the state of India at that period — tells them that the business of a servant of the Company was simply to wring out of the nativos а hundred or two hundred thousand pounds as speedily ns possible, that before his constitution... | |
 | 1867 - 894 pages
...that we were bound to discharge towards them the duties of rulers. During that interval, the business of a servant of the Company was simply to wring out...the heat, to marry a peer's daughter, to buy rotten borronghs in Cornwall, and to give balk in St. James's Square. Of the conduct of Hastings at this time,... | |
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