Macaulay's Essays on Clive and HastingsGinn, 1910 - 268 pages |
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... conduct of his defense . This sum was made up to him , however , by the Company . He lived in retirement at Daylesford , 1795-1818 , receiving a few home honors in his old age- membership in the Privy Council , a doctor's degree from ...
... conduct of his defense . This sum was made up to him , however , by the Company . He lived in retirement at Daylesford , 1795-1818 , receiving a few home honors in his old age- membership in the Privy Council , a doctor's degree from ...
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... conduct the judicial , financial , and diplomatic business of a great country , but to take stock , to make advances to weavers , to ship cargoes , and , above all , to keep an eye on private traders who dared to infringe the monopoly ...
... conduct the judicial , financial , and diplomatic business of a great country , but to take stock , to make advances to weavers , to ship cargoes , and , above all , to keep an eye on private traders who dared to infringe the monopoly ...
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... France and Spain . In the eastern seas France obtained the ascendancy . Labourdonnais , governor of Mauritius , a man of eminent talents and virtues , conducted an expedition to the continent of India in spite of LORD CLIVE 7.
... France and Spain . In the eastern seas France obtained the ascendancy . Labourdonnais , governor of Mauritius , a man of eminent talents and virtues , conducted an expedition to the continent of India in spite of LORD CLIVE 7.
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... conducted through the town in a triumphal procession under the eyes of fifty thousand spec- tators . It was with reason thought that this gross violation of public faith absolved the inhabitants of Madras from the engage- ments into ...
... conducted through the town in a triumphal procession under the eyes of fifty thousand spec- tators . It was with reason thought that this gross violation of public faith absolved the inhabitants of Madras from the engage- ments into ...
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... conduct the defense under circumstances so discouraging , was a young man of five - and - twenty , who had been bred a bookkeeper . During fifty days the siege went on . During fifty days the 5 young captain maintained the defense ...
... conduct the defense under circumstances so discouraging , was a young man of five - and - twenty , who had been bred a bookkeeper . During fifty days the siege went on . During fifty days the 5 young captain maintained the defense ...
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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.