Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 3Hurd and Houghton, 1874 |
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... crime and ruin . Firmly as he held in theory the doctrine of human depravity , his habits were such that he was unable to conceive how far from the path of right even kind and noble natures may be hurried by the rage WARREN HASTINGS . 5.
... crime and ruin . Firmly as he held in theory the doctrine of human depravity , his habits were such that he was unable to conceive how far from the path of right even kind and noble natures may be hurried by the rage WARREN HASTINGS . 5.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. kind and noble natures may be hurried by the rage of conflict and the lust of dominion . Hastings had another associate at Westminster of whom we shall have occasion to make frequent mention ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. kind and noble natures may be hurried by the rage of conflict and the lust of dominion . Hastings had another associate at Westminster of whom we shall have occasion to make frequent mention ...
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... kind of courage which is often wanting to his masters . To inevitable evils he is sometimes found to oppose a passive forti- tude , such as the Stoics attributed to their ideal sage . An European warrior who rushes on a battery of can ...
... kind of courage which is often wanting to his masters . To inevitable evils he is sometimes found to oppose a passive forti- tude , such as the Stoics attributed to their ideal sage . An European warrior who rushes on a battery of can ...
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... kind of disobedience they would most readily pardon ; and he correctly judged that the safest course would be to neglect the sermons and to find the rupees . A mind so fertile as his , and so little restrained by conscientious scruples ...
... kind of disobedience they would most readily pardon ; and he correctly judged that the safest course would be to neglect the sermons and to find the rupees . A mind so fertile as his , and so little restrained by conscientious scruples ...
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... kind . But he must also have been a man in the highest degree arrogant and insolent , a man prone to malevolence , and prone to the error of mis- taking his malevolence for public virtue . " Doest thou well to be angry ? " was the ...
... kind . But he must also have been a man in the highest degree arrogant and insolent , a man prone to malevolence , and prone to the error of mis- taking his malevolence for public virtue . " Doest thou well to be angry ? " was the ...
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