Essay on Warren HastingsMacmillan Company, 1911 |
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... interest in outside political affairs seem fairly balanced . He took many prizes , but lost many that others thought he deserved . The losses he seems to have taken philosophically , for in later years he wrote , " If a man brings away ...
... interest in outside political affairs seem fairly balanced . He took many prizes , but lost many that others thought he deserved . The losses he seems to have taken philosophically , for in later years he wrote , " If a man brings away ...
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... regularly through all the years that were apparently full of the public duties of a member of Parliament . Macaulay was called to the bar in 1826 , but took little interest in law , preferring to spend his time xvi INTRODUCTION.
... regularly through all the years that were apparently full of the public duties of a member of Parliament . Macaulay was called to the bar in 1826 , but took little interest in law , preferring to spend his time xvi INTRODUCTION.
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... interest , and he refused to dissipate his power even in what at times appeared to others as the things he ought to do . Thus at this time , when he was ostensi- bly preparing himself to be an advocate , he did little reading in law ...
... interest , and he refused to dissipate his power even in what at times appeared to others as the things he ought to do . Thus at this time , when he was ostensi- bly preparing himself to be an advocate , he did little reading in law ...
Page xxi
... interest of the country endured several severe tests . In each case he seems to have realized and deplored the consequences to himself , but did not allow them to influence his actions . His own vote assisted in abolishing the office by ...
... interest of the country endured several severe tests . In each case he seems to have realized and deplored the consequences to himself , but did not allow them to influence his actions . His own vote assisted in abolishing the office by ...
Page xxv
... palaces , furniture , jewels , soldiers , elephants , and idols were subjects for home letters . He digressed from the main road to visit the old town and fortress of Seringapatam , a place having a double interest for LIFE OF MACAULAY XXV.
... palaces , furniture , jewels , soldiers , elephants , and idols were subjects for home letters . He digressed from the main road to visit the old town and fortress of Seringapatam , a place having a double interest for LIFE OF MACAULAY XXV.
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Page 174 - 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. 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 writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons.
Page 179 - 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 179 - I impeach Warren Hastings of high crimes and misdemeanors. 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 175 - 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 man, and not like a bad man.
Page 172 - 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 173 - There the ambassadors of great kings and commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no 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 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 172 - ... fame. Neither military nor civil pomp was wanting. The avenues were lined with grenadiers. The streets were kept clear by cavalry. The peers, robed in gold and ermine, were marshalled by the heralds under Garter Kingat-arms.
Page 176 - Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the English Hyperides. There was Burke, ignorant, indeed, or negligent of the art of adapting his reasonings and his style to the capacity and taste of his hearers, but in amplitude of comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern.
Page 176 - ... commanding, copious, and sonorous eloquence was wanting to that great muster of various talents. Age and blindness had unfitted Lord North for the duties of a public prosecutor; and his friends were left without the help of his excellent sense, his tact, and his urbanity.
Page 154 - ... descending the steps to the riverside, the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and the silver maces, the elephants with their canopies of state, the gorgeous palanquin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady, all these things were to him as the objects amidst which his own life had been passed, as the objects which lay on the road between Beaconsfield and St.