Warren Hastings: A BiographyAllen, 1878 - 383 páginas |
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... wife - His return to Calcutta - He prepares to resign office - Honours and rewards conferred on the troops - His patronage of Art and learning - The Calcutta " Madrasa " -Death of Cleveland - Hastings ' last acts - His departure home ...
... wife - His return to Calcutta - He prepares to resign office - Honours and rewards conferred on the troops - His patronage of Art and learning - The Calcutta " Madrasa " -Death of Cleveland - Hastings ' last acts - His departure home ...
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... wife the widow of a Captain Campbell , who a few months before had arrived at Falta on his way out from England . * What sort of woman was this first wife of Hast . ings , how the two passed their few years of wedded life together , Mr ...
... wife the widow of a Captain Campbell , who a few months before had arrived at Falta on his way out from England . * What sort of woman was this first wife of Hast . ings , how the two passed their few years of wedded life together , Mr ...
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... wife . The steamy heat of Bengal , which seems to have killed Mrs. Hastings , wrought little harm upon her hard - working husband , who lived tem- perately , was seldom called upon to overstrain his bodily powers , and had no leisure ...
... wife . The steamy heat of Bengal , which seems to have killed Mrs. Hastings , wrought little harm upon her hard - working husband , who lived tem- perately , was seldom called upon to overstrain his bodily powers , and had no leisure ...
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... wife , a lady , says Mr. Gleig , who came to know her in after years , " of singularly attractive man- ners , of a very engaging figure , and a mind highly cultivated , " the love that should hallow wedlock seems to have burned but ...
... wife , a lady , says Mr. Gleig , who came to know her in after years , " of singularly attractive man- ners , of a very engaging figure , and a mind highly cultivated , " the love that should hallow wedlock seems to have burned but ...
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... wife heartily despised her husband ; but Mr. Gleig's narrative merely im- plies that the two were little suited to each other . With Hastings the lady was soon brought into social contact , under conditions which neither could have ...
... wife heartily despised her husband ; but Mr. Gleig's narrative merely im- plies that the two were little suited to each other . With Hastings the lady was soon brought into social contact , under conditions which neither could have ...
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