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What a fine-looking old fellow the general is!" They came straight toward where the first luff and I were standing; and as they approached, Captain Bentinck said: "Well, general, since you are quite determined not to stay to lunch with us, let me at least introduce my first lieutenant to you before you go."
That there was an interruption which would probably prevent the arrival of any ships this year; that orders had been given for a double investment next year. I said the state of affairs generally was by no means satisfactory. The King said he was afraid Lord W. Bentinck had not been doing well.
Lord William Bentinck, having begun his reign with the abolition of the crime of suttee, was, with the help of Carey's old students, steadily carrying out the other reforms for which in all his Indian career the missionary had prayed and preached and published. The judicial service was reorganised so as to include native judges.
Andrew Bannatyne, the late Dean of Faculty, and the first solicitor to the company. It will be remembered that the first bill of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway was thrown out of Parliament in 1837 owing to the strong opposition raised against it. In 1838, however, the bill was reintroduced, and passed Lord Wm. Bentinck, the then member for Glasgow, being chairman of the committee.
One can't possibly know what she may have imported from that slum in Bentinck Street." "And what was it like after Gibraltar?" Alicia asked, with a barely perceptible glance at the envelope edges showing over his breast-pocket. "I'll look," and he sorted one out. It was pink and glossy, with a diagonal water-stripe.
The west point of Sweers Island, bearing North 10 degrees East and the east point of Bentinck Island, North 8 degrees East mark the limits of each board.
Once more in February, 1696, was Portland the means of saving the King's life, through the information he had received of a plot for his assassination by the Papists. The details of the scheme were eventually laid bare and the conspirators brought to justice. Few men have had a life so full of activity and importance to the State as this Hans William Bentinck.
I was at his house when the English envoy, Lord Tyrconnel, and Admiral Bentinck were announced, both of them men of remarkably fine appearance: they were the first English who had re-appeared on that continent, from which the tyranny of one man had banished them.
Lord George Bentinck, on the contrary, would impress on his friends, that if they wished to maintain the territorial constitution of their country, they must allow no sectarian considerations to narrow the basis of sympathy on which it should rest; and in the acres and millions of Ireland, in its soil and its people, equally neglected, he would have sought the natural auxiliaries of our institutions.
They stood talking together for a minute or two; and then Captain Bentinck, glancing up at me, hailed. "Mr Grenvile," said he, "I am about to send this glass up to you by means of the signal halyards.
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