Warren HastingsCassell, 1886 - 191 pages |
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Page 8
... never for one moment dull ; possessing to its highest degree - the power of illustration ; drawing at will from inex- haustible resources of knowledge . In the Greville memoirs the statement is made , that Macaulay had " displayed feats ...
... never for one moment dull ; possessing to its highest degree - the power of illustration ; drawing at will from inex- haustible resources of knowledge . In the Greville memoirs the statement is made , that Macaulay had " displayed feats ...
Page 9
... never did so ) that he talked rather too much ; but now he has occasional flashes of silence , that make his conversation perfectly delightful . " Macaulay lacked thorough sympathy with human nature , on its spiritual and affectional ...
... never did so ) that he talked rather too much ; but now he has occasional flashes of silence , that make his conversation perfectly delightful . " Macaulay lacked thorough sympathy with human nature , on its spiritual and affectional ...
Page 13
... never abandoned . He would recover the estate which had belonged to his fathers . He would be Hastings of Daylesford . This purpose , formed in infancy and poverty , grew stronger as his intellect expanded and as his fortune rose . He ...
... never abandoned . He would recover the estate which had belonged to his fathers . He would be Hastings of Daylesford . This purpose , formed in infancy and poverty , grew stronger as his intellect expanded and as his fortune rose . He ...
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... never been at- tacked by combinations of powerful and deadly ene- mies . He had never been compelled to make a choice between innocence and greatness , between crime and ruin . Firmly as he held in theory the doctrine of human depravity ...
... never been at- tacked by combinations of powerful and deadly ene- mies . He had never been compelled to make a choice between innocence and greatness , between crime and ruin . Firmly as he held in theory the doctrine of human depravity ...
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... never charged with having borne a share in the worst abuses which then prevailed ; and it is almost equally certain that , if he had borne a share in those abuses , the able and bitter enemies who afterwards persecuted him would not ...
... never charged with having borne a share in the worst abuses which then prevailed ; and it is almost equally certain that , if he had borne a share in those abuses , the able and bitter enemies who afterwards persecuted him would not ...
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