Warren HastingsCambridge University Press, 1896 - 179 pages |
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Page 55
... authority over the subordinate presidencies ; threw all the affairs of Bombay into confusion ; and interfered , with an incredible union of rashness and feebleness , in the intestine disputes of the Mahratta government . At the same ...
... authority over the subordinate presidencies ; threw all the affairs of Bombay into confusion ; and interfered , with an incredible union of rashness and feebleness , in the intestine disputes of the Mahratta government . At the same ...
Page 60
... authority in England . If that authority took part with his enemies , nothing was left to him but to throw up his office . He accordingly placed his resignation in the hands of his agent in London , Colonel Macleane . But Macleane was ...
... authority in England . If that authority took part with his enemies , nothing was left to him but to throw up his office . He accordingly placed his resignation in the hands of his agent in London , Colonel Macleane . But Macleane was ...
Page 61
... authority perfectly inde- pendent of the Council , an authority which could protect one whom the Council wished to destroy , and send to the gibbet one whom the Council wished to protect . Yet such was the fact . The Supreme Court was ...
... authority perfectly inde- pendent of the Council , an authority which could protect one whom the Council wished to destroy , and send to the gibbet one whom the Council wished to protect . Yet such was the fact . The Supreme Court was ...
Page 65
... authority for this story , which in itself is by no means improbable . The day drew near ; and Nuncomar prepared himself to die with that quiet fortitude with which the Bengalee , so effeminately timid in personal conflict . often ...
... authority for this story , which in itself is by no means improbable . The day drew near ; and Nuncomar prepared himself to die with that quiet fortitude with which the Bengalee , so effeminately timid in personal conflict . often ...
Page 75
... authority entitled to their obedience within fifteen thousand miles . It seemed that there remained no way of settling the dispute except an appeal to arms ; and from such an appeal , Hastings , confident of his influence over his ...
... authority entitled to their obedience within fifteen thousand miles . It seemed that there remained no way of settling the dispute except an appeal to arms ; and from such an appeal , Hastings , confident of his influence over his ...
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