Macaulay's Essay on Warren HastingsLongmans, Green and Company, 1892 - 303 pages |
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Page xvi
... Empire . Subordinate Mussulman viceroys , as well as Hindoo subjects , began to assert their independence , and to defy their nominal sovereigns who had become degraded by debauchery at Delhi . The Mahrattas , who are low - caste ...
... Empire . Subordinate Mussulman viceroys , as well as Hindoo subjects , began to assert their independence , and to defy their nominal sovereigns who had become degraded by debauchery at Delhi . The Mahrattas , who are low - caste ...
Page xix
... Empire afforded too great a tempta- tion , and province after province was annexed as British territory . The Company became a govern- ing body , and the three presidencies of Madras , Bombay , and Bengal came to be ruled by a Governor ...
... Empire afforded too great a tempta- tion , and province after province was annexed as British territory . The Company became a govern- ing body , and the three presidencies of Madras , Bombay , and Bengal came to be ruled by a Governor ...
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... on his mind so much that he committed suicide in 1774 . 3 The Mogul was the sovereign of the Empire of Hindostan , the capital of which was Delhi . This line was founded by Baber in provinces of Bengal , Orissa , and Bahar . At ΙΟ.
... on his mind so much that he committed suicide in 1774 . 3 The Mogul was the sovereign of the Empire of Hindostan , the capital of which was Delhi . This line was founded by Baber in provinces of Bengal , Orissa , and Bahar . At ΙΟ.
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... empire . On one side was a band of English functionaries , daring , intelligent , eager to be rich . On the other side was a great native popula- 10 tion , helpless , timid , accustomed to crouch under oppression . To keep the stronger ...
... empire . On one side was a band of English functionaries , daring , intelligent , eager to be rich . On the other side was a great native popula- 10 tion , helpless , timid , accustomed to crouch under oppression . To keep the stronger ...
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... empire merely as a buccaneer would look on a galleon . Had his heart been much worse than it was , his understanding would have preserved 25 him from that extremity of baseness . He was an un- scrupulous , perhaps an unprincipled ...
... empire merely as a buccaneer would look on a galleon . Had his heart been much worse than it was , his understanding would have preserved 25 him from that extremity of baseness . He was an un- scrupulous , perhaps an unprincipled ...
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Page 171 - Westminster election against palace and treasury, shone round Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. The sergeants made proclamation. Hastings advanced to the bar, and bent his knee. The culprit was, indeed, not unworthy of that great presence. He had ruled an extensive and populous country, had made laws and treaties, had sent forth armies, had set up and pulled down princes.
Page 169 - The gray old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation 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.
Page 171 - ... 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. A person small and emaciated, yet deriving dignity from a carriage which, while it indicated deference to the court, indicated also habitual self-possession and selfrespect, a high and intellectual forehead, a brow pensive, but not gloomy, a mouth of inflexible decision, a face pale and worn, but serene, on which was written, as legibly as under the picture in the councilchamber...
Page 168 - 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 King-at-Arms.
Page 166 - Westminster; but perhaps there never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. All the various kinds of interest which belong to the near and to the distant, to the present and to the past, were collected on one spot and in one hour. All the talents and all the accomplishments which are developed by liberty and civilization were now displayed with every advantage that could be derived both from co-operation and from contrast.
Page 174 - With an exuberance of thought and a splendor of diction which more than satisfied the highly raised expectation of the audience, he described the character and institutions of the natives of India, recounted the circumstances in which the Asiatic empire of Britain had originated, and set forth the constitution of the Company and...
Page 170 - Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid.
Page 166 - There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster ; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind.
Page 151 - Street. All India was present to the eye of his mind, from the halls where suitors laid gold and perfumes at the feet of sovereigns to the wild moor where the...
Page 27 - What the horns are to the buffalo, what the paw is to the tiger, what the sting is to the bee, what beauty, according to the old Greek song, is to woman, deceit is to the Bengalee. Large promises, smooth excuses, elaborate tissues of circumstantial falsehood, chicanery, perjury, forgery, are the weapons, offensive and defensive, of the people of the Lower Ganges.