Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, Volume 3A.C. Armstrong & son, 1860 |
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... truth is that the temptations to which so many English functionaries yielded in the time of Mr. Van- sittart were not temptations addressed to the ruling passions of Warren Hastings . He was not squeamish in pecuniary transactions ; but ...
... truth is that the temptations to which so many English functionaries yielded in the time of Mr. Van- sittart were not temptations addressed to the ruling passions of Warren Hastings . He was not squeamish in pecuniary transactions ; but ...
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... truth the most despotic power that can be conceived . The only restraint on the English masters of the country was that which their own justice and humanity imposed on them . There was no constitu- tional check on their will , and ...
... truth the most despotic power that can be conceived . The only restraint on the English masters of the country was that which their own justice and humanity imposed on them . There was no constitu- tional check on their will , and ...
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... truth , that India was a poorer country than countries which in Europe are reckoned poor , than Ireland , for example , or than Portugal . It was confidently believed by Lords of the Treasury , and members for the city that Bengal would ...
... truth , that India was a poorer country than countries which in Europe are reckoned poor , than Ireland , for example , or than Portugal . It was confidently believed by Lords of the Treasury , and members for the city that Bengal would ...
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... truth the sum of almost all the instructions that Hastings ever received from home . Now these instructions , being interpreted , mean simply , “ Be the father and the oppressor of the people ; be just and un- just , moderate and ...
... truth the sum of almost all the instructions that Hastings ever received from home . Now these instructions , being interpreted , mean simply , “ Be the father and the oppressor of the people ; be just and un- just , moderate and ...
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... truth of his story . The seal , whether forged , as Has- tings affirmed , or genuine , as we are rather inclined to believe , proved nothing . Nuncomar , as everybody knows , who knows India , had only to tell the Munny Begum that such ...
... truth of his story . The seal , whether forged , as Has- tings affirmed , or genuine , as we are rather inclined to believe , proved nothing . Nuncomar , as everybody knows , who knows India , had only to tell the Munny Begum that such ...
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Page 130 - ... 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. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There, too, was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia, whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay.
Page 129 - 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 133 - The energy and pathos of the great orator extorted expressions of unwonted admiration from the stern and - hostile Chancellor, and, for a moment, seemed to pierce even the resolute heart of the defendant. The ladies in the galleries, unaccustomed to such displays of eloquence, excited by the solemnity of the occasion, and perhaps not unwilling to display their taste and sensibility, were in a state of uncontrollable emotion. Handkerchiefs were pulled out; smelling bottles were handed round; hysterical...
Page 134 - 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 173 - You are worse," said one of his medical attendants, "than you should be from the degree of fever which you have. Is your mind at ease ? " "No, it is not," were the last recorded words of Oliver Goldsmith.
Page 128 - 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 8 - This purpose, formed in infancy and poverty, grew stronger as his intellect expanded and as his fortune rose. He pursued his plan with that calm but indomitable force of will which was the most striking peculiarity of his character. When, under a tropical sun, he ruled fifty millions of Asiatics, his hopes, amidst all the cares of war, finance, and legislation, still pointed to Daylesford.
Page 129 - ... where Charles had confronted the High Court of Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his 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 King-at-Arms. The judges, in their vestments of state, attended to give advice on points of law.
Page 174 - The evils produced by his wickedness were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown ; and, in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America...
Page 116 - 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...