Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 5-6A.C. Armstrong, 1860 |
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... thousand pounds as speedily as possible , that he might return home before his constitu- tion had suffered from the heat , to marry a peer's daughter , to buy rotten boroughs in Cornwall , and to give balls in St. James's Square . Of ...
... thousand pounds as speedily as possible , that he might return home before his constitu- tion had suffered from the heat , to marry a peer's daughter , to buy rotten boroughs in Cornwall , and to give balls in St. James's Square . Of ...
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... thousand pounds sterling a year . The personal allowance of the nabob , amounting to more than three hundred thousand pounds a year , passed through the minister's hands , and was , to a great extent , at his dis- posal . The collection ...
... thousand pounds sterling a year . The personal allowance of the nabob , amounting to more than three hundred thousand pounds a year , passed through the minister's hands , and was , to a great extent , at his dis- posal . The collection ...
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... thousand miles from the place where their orders were to be carried into effect , they never perceived the gross inconsistency of which they were guilty . But the inconsistency was at once manifest to their vicegerent at Calcutta , who ...
... thousand miles from the place where their orders were to be carried into effect , they never perceived the gross inconsistency of which they were guilty . But the inconsistency was at once manifest to their vicegerent at Calcutta , who ...
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... thousand pounds a year to half that sum . The Com- pany had bound itsolf to pay near three hundred thou- sand pounds a year to the Great Mogul , as a mark of homage for the provinces which he had intrusted to their care ; and they had ...
... thousand pounds a year to half that sum . The Com- pany had bound itsolf to pay near three hundred thou- sand pounds a year to the Great Mogul , as a mark of homage for the provinces which he had intrusted to their care ; and they had ...
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... thousand men into the field . Sujah Dowlah had him- self seen them fight , and wisely shrank from a conflict with them . There was in India one army , and only one , against which even those proud Caucasian tribes could not stand . It ...
... thousand men into the field . Sujah Dowlah had him- self seen them fight , and wisely shrank from a conflict with them . There was in India one army , and only one , against which even those proud Caucasian tribes could not stand . It ...
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Page 125 - of an orator. 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 fairhaired young daughters of the House of Brunswick. There the Ambassadors of great Kings and Common
Page 124 - 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 Strafford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party inflamed
Page 126 - other country In the world could present. There Siddons, in the prime of her majestic beauty, looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitations of the stage. There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the
Page 420 - to the consummate painter of life and manners. It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule without abusing it, who, without inflicting a wound, effected a great social reform, and who reconciled wit and virtue, after a long and disastrous separation, during which wit had been led astray by profligacy,
Page 19 - movements languid. During many ages he has been trampled upon by men of bolder and more hardy breeds. Courage, independence, veracity, are qualities to which his constitution and his situation are equally unfavourable. His mind bears a singular analogy to his body. It is weak even to helplessness for purposes of manly resistance
Page 126 - There were the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticized, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies whose lips, more persuasive than those of Fox himself, had carried the Westminster election against palace and treasury, shone around
Page 112 - had just as lively an idea of the insurrection at Benares as of Lord George Gordon's riots, and of the execution of Nuncomar as of the execution of Dr. Dodd. Oppression in Bengal was to him the same thing as oppression in the streets of London. He saw that Hastings had been guilty
Page 325 - Addison's classical attainments. In one department of learning, indeed, his proficiency was such as it is hardly possible to overrate. His knowledge of the Latin poets, from Lucretius and Catullus down to Claudian and Prudentius, was singularly exact and profound. He understood them thoroughly, entered into their spirit, and had the finest and most discriminating
Page 374 - or Cervantes. But what shall we say of Addison's humour, of his sense of the ludicrous, of his power of awakening that sense in others, and of drawing mirth from incidents which occur every day, and from little peculiarities of temper and manner, such as may be found in every man ? We feel the charm
Page 90 - is to desire that his officers, when they shall come, may have free access to the prisoners, and be permitted to do with them as they shall see proper." While these barbarities were perpetrated at Lucknow, the Princesses were still under duress at Fyzabad. Food was allowed to enter their apartments only in