Macaulay's Essays on Clive and HastingsGinn, 1910 - 268 pages |
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... Parliament and abolitionists met to discuss ways of advancing the cause of abolition of slavery in the West Indies . As a mere boy Tom wrote an article which he desired should be translated into an Indian dialect so as to persuade the ...
... Parliament and abolitionists met to discuss ways of advancing the cause of abolition of slavery in the West Indies . As a mere boy Tom wrote an article which he desired should be translated into an Indian dialect so as to persuade the ...
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... Parliament for Calne . His Reform Bill speeches , though uttered in a rapid , somewhat monotonous delivery , gained for him a reputation for eloquence , and when printed were found to be convincing in thought . The literary and ...
... Parliament for Calne . His Reform Bill speeches , though uttered in a rapid , somewhat monotonous delivery , gained for him a reputation for eloquence , and when printed were found to be convincing in thought . The literary and ...
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... Parliament as their representative . He was elected in 1839 and continued to represent Edinburgh for eight years . Soon after his election he became Secretary of War , holding the position for two years . His essay on Clive appeared in ...
... Parliament as their representative . He was elected in 1839 and continued to represent Edinburgh for eight years . Soon after his election he became Secretary of War , holding the position for two years . His essay on Clive appeared in ...
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... Parliament , and did so . His last speech in the House was made in July , 1853. He prepared civil - service rules and examinations for India in 1854. He published Volumes III and IV of his History in 1855 , receiving in the next year ...
... Parliament , and did so . His last speech in the House was made in July , 1853. He prepared civil - service rules and examinations for India in 1854. He published Volumes III and IV of his History in 1855 , receiving in the next year ...
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... Parliament as a speaker of unquestioned oratorical power and keen intel- lectual grasp of great questions would alone make enough activity for all but the most exceptional members . His con- structive , permanently effective work in ...
... Parliament as a speaker of unquestioned oratorical power and keen intel- lectual grasp of great questions would alone make enough activity for all but the most exceptional members . His con- structive , permanently effective work in ...
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Page 181 - Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire. The Sergeants made proclamation. Hastings advanced to the bar, and bent his knee. The culprit was indeed not unworthy of that great presence. He had ruled an extensive and populous country, had made laws and treaties, had sent forth armies, had set up and pulled down princes. And in his high place he had so borne himself, that all had feared him, that most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory, except virtue. He looked like a great...
Page 180 - There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many 30 writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons.
Page 34 - But the answer was that nothing could be done without the Nabob's orders, that the Nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody woke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought for the places at the windows, fought for the pittance of water with which the cruel mercy of the murderers mocked their agonies, raved, prayed, blasphemed, implored the guards to fire among them.
Page 180 - There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa.
Page 179 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of...
Page 184 - House of Parliament, whose trust he has betrayed. I impeach him in the name of the English nation, whose ancient honor he has sullied. I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose rights he has trodden under foot, and whose country he has turned into a desert. Lastly, in the name of human nature itself, in the name of both sexes, in the name of every age, in the name of every rank, I impeach the common enemy and oppressor of all !" When the deep murmur of various emotions had subsided,...
Page 181 - ... set up and pulled down princes. And in his high place he had so borne himself, that all had feared him, that most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory, except virtue. He looked like a great man, and not like a bad man. A person small and emaciated, yet deriving dignity from a carriage which, while it indicated deference to the court, indicated also habitual self-possession and selfrespect, a high and intellectual forehead, a brow pensive, but not gloomy, a mouth...
Page 182 - ... superior to every orator, ancient or modern. There, with eyes reverentially fixed on Burke, appeared the finest gentleman of the age, his form developed by every manly exercise, his face beaming with intelligence and spirit, the ingenious, the chivalrous, the high-souled Windham. Nor, though surrounded by such men, did the youngest manager pass unnoticed. At an age when most of those who...
Page 184 - I impeach him in the name of the Commons House of Parliament, whose trust he has betrayed. I impeach him in the name of the English nation, whose ancient honor he has sullied.
Page 180 - There were gathered together, from all parts of a great, free, enlightened, and prosperous empire, grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every science and of every art. There were seated round the queen the fair-haired young daughters of the house of Brunswick. There the ambassadors of great kings and commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could present.