Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 3Hurd and Houghton, 1874 |
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Page 12
... hope , as it should seem , of interesting in this project a man who enjoyed the highest literary reputa- tion , and who was particularly connected with Oxford . The interview appears to have left on Johnson's mind a most favourable ...
... hope , as it should seem , of interesting in this project a man who enjoyed the highest literary reputa- tion , and who was particularly connected with Oxford . The interview appears to have left on Johnson's mind a most favourable ...
Page 13
... hope of picking up some of the pagodas which were then lightly got and as lightly spent by the English in India . The Baron was accompanied by his wife , a native , we have somewhere read , of Archangel . This young woman , who , born ...
... hope of picking up some of the pagodas which were then lightly got and as lightly spent by the English in India . The Baron was accompanied by his wife , a native , we have somewhere read , of Archangel . This young woman , who , born ...
Page 79
... hope of obtaining some indulgence , secretly offered the Governor - General a bribe of twenty thou sand pounds . Hastings took the money , and his ene- mies have maintained that he took it intending to keep it . He certainly concealed ...
... hope of obtaining some indulgence , secretly offered the Governor - General a bribe of twenty thou sand pounds . Hastings took the money , and his ene- mies have maintained that he took it intending to keep it . He certainly concealed ...
Page 89
... hope of posterity . It has always been held in Asiatic courts that beings thus estranged from sympathy with their kind are those whom princes may most safely trust . Sujah Dowlah had been of this opinion . He had given his entire ...
... hope of posterity . It has always been held in Asiatic courts that beings thus estranged from sympathy with their kind are those whom princes may most safely trust . Sujah Dowlah had been of this opinion . He had given his entire ...
Page 122
... hope of being able to avert an impeachment , were not very strenuous in their exertions . At length the House , having agreed to twenty articles of charge , directed Burke to go before the Lords , and to impeach the late Governor- 122 ...
... hope of being able to avert an impeachment , were not very strenuous in their exertions . At length the House , having agreed to twenty articles of charge , directed Burke to go before the Lords , and to impeach the late Governor- 122 ...
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