Macaulay's Essays on Clive and HastingsGinn, 1910 - 268 pages |
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... seemed hardly compatible with soundness of mind , had begun to cause great uneasiness to his family . " Fighting , " says one of his uncles , " to which he is out of measure addicted , gives his temper such a fierceness and impe- 30 ...
... seemed hardly compatible with soundness of mind , had begun to cause great uneasiness to his family . " Fighting , " says one of his uncles , " to which he is out of measure addicted , gives his temper such a fierceness and impe- 30 ...
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... seemed likely to de- stroy all his hopes in life suddenly opened before him a new path to eminence . Europe had been , during some years , dis- 25 tracted by the war of the Austrian succession . George the Second was the steady ally of ...
... seemed likely to de- stroy all his hopes in life suddenly opened before him a new path to eminence . Europe had been , during some years , dis- 25 tracted by the war of the Austrian succession . George the Second was the steady ally of ...
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... seemed improbable . But scarcely any man , however sagacious , would have thought it possible that a trading company , separated from India by fifteen thousand miles of sea , and possessing in India only a few acres for purposes of ...
... seemed improbable . But scarcely any man , however sagacious , would have thought it possible that a trading company , separated from India by fifteen thousand miles of sea , and possessing in India only a few acres for purposes of ...
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... seemed to have prevailed everywhere . 20 Nazir Jung perished by the hands of his own followers ; Mir- zapha Jung was master of the Deccan ; and the triumph of French arms and French policy was complete . At Pondicherry all was ...
... seemed to have prevailed everywhere . 20 Nazir Jung perished by the hands of his own followers ; Mir- zapha Jung was master of the Deccan ; and the triumph of French arms and French policy was complete . At Pondicherry all was ...
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... seemed impossible . The small force which was then at Madras had no commander . Major Lawrence had returned to England , and not a single officer of established character remained in the 5 settlement . The natives had learned to look ...
... seemed impossible . The small force which was then at Madras had no commander . Major Lawrence had returned to England , and not a single officer of established character remained in the 5 settlement . The natives had learned to look ...
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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.