Journeys through bookland; a new and original plan for reading (1912)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve company · leaf 474
THE IMPEACHMENT OF WARRENHASTINGS THOMAS BABINGTON MACAU LAYINTRODUCTORY NOTE ARREN HASTINGS, the remarkable man whose trialis described in this selection,was born on the sixth of De-cember, 1732. As he was inhis childhood dependent onhis grandfather, a poor man, … early advantages were no greater thanthose of the peasant children of the neighbor-hood. He had, however, from his earliestyears, an indomitable will, and the determination,made when he was but seven years old, to regainpossession of the estate of Daylesford, which hadpassed out of the hands of the…
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