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Strana 10
... William De- vaynes , Esquires , chairman and deputy chairman of the court of directors , stating , that he trusted ... Fort Saint - George to obtain for that settlement supplies of grain , troops , and money , from the governour ...
... William De- vaynes , Esquires , chairman and deputy chairman of the court of directors , stating , that he trusted ... Fort Saint - George to obtain for that settlement supplies of grain , troops , and money , from the governour ...
Strana 43
... Fort William . If the company's servants had taken a new date from that period , and if from thenceforward their con- duct had corresponded with the views of the le- gislature , it is probable , that a review of the trans- actions of ...
... Fort William . If the company's servants had taken a new date from that period , and if from thenceforward their con- duct had corresponded with the views of the le- gislature , it is probable , that a review of the trans- actions of ...
Strana 81
... Fort William , 29th November , 1780 . HONOURABLE SIRS , You will be informed by our consultations of the 26th of June of a very unusual tender , which was made by me to the board on that day for the purpose of indemnifying the company ...
... Fort William , 29th November , 1780 . HONOURABLE SIRS , You will be informed by our consultations of the 26th of June of a very unusual tender , which was made by me to the board on that day for the purpose of indemnifying the company ...
Strana 83
... Fort - William , 22d May 1782 . HONOURABLE SIRS , to it . I have the honour to be , Honourable Sirs , Your most faithful , most obedient , and most humble servant , WARREN HASTINGS . APPENDIX B. No. 4 . In a letter , which I have had ...
... Fort - William , 22d May 1782 . HONOURABLE SIRS , to it . I have the honour to be , Honourable Sirs , Your most faithful , most obedient , and most humble servant , WARREN HASTINGS . APPENDIX B. No. 4 . In a letter , which I have had ...
Strana 84
... Fort William , 22d May 1782 . account of durbar Current rupees 10,30,275 1 3 19,64,990 36 ( Errours excepted . ) WARREN HASTINGS . APPENDIX B. No. 5 . CRs . 9,34,715 2 3 that degree of confidence from my immediate employers , which they ...
... Fort William , 22d May 1782 . account of durbar Current rupees 10,30,275 1 3 19,64,990 36 ( Errours excepted . ) WARREN HASTINGS . APPENDIX B. No. 5 . CRs . 9,34,715 2 3 that degree of confidence from my immediate employers , which they ...
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Strana 258 - The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognize the Divine justice, and in some degree submit to it.
Strana 329 - Then to advise how war may best, upheld, Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage...
Strana 307 - And turn the unwilling steeds another way ; Benighted wanderers, the forest o'er, Curse the saved candle and unopening door ; . While the gaunt mastiff, growling at the gate, Affrights the beggar whom he longs to eat.
Strana 352 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law; but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature, and we ourselves compell'd Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults To give in evidence.
Strana 283 - The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity .. the rest is crime.
Strana 259 - ... rights ; the joint and several securities, each in its place and order, for every kind and every quality, of property and of dignity; — as long as these endure, so long the Duke of Bedford is safe: and we are all safe together — the high from the blights of envy and the spoliations of rapacity; the low from the iron hand of oppression and the insolent spurn of contempt. Amen ! and so be it : and so it will be, Dum domus JEnea Capitoli immobile saxum Accolet ; imperiumque pater Romanus habebit.
Strana 258 - I am alone. I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. Indeed, my lord, I greatly deceive myself, if, in this hard season, I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honor in the world.
Strana 266 - At the very moment when some of them seemed plunged in unfathomable abysses of disgrace and disaster, they have suddenly emerged. They have begun a new course, and opened a new reckoning ; and even in the depths of their calamity, and on the very ruins of their country, have laid the foundations of a towering and durable greatness. All this has happened without any apparent previous change in the general circumstances which had brought on their distress . the death of a man at a critical juncture,...
Strana 251 - He was a man of admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile understanding fitted for every sort of business, of infinite wit and pleasantry, of a delightful temper, and with a mind most perfectly disinterested.
Strana 277 - Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry ? And there were also two others, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.