Macaulay's Essay on Lord CliveAmerican book Company, 1912 - 92 pages |
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... affairs , he was , however , fresh from the scenes and people of whom he wrote . In 1839 he had visited Italy and in 1842 he published the Lays of Ancient Rome . In these he tried his skill in poetic composition , though with less ...
... affairs , he was , however , fresh from the scenes and people of whom he wrote . In 1839 he had visited Italy and in 1842 he published the Lays of Ancient Rome . In these he tried his skill in poetic composition , though with less ...
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... affairs ; and these persons were eager to be restored to their posts and compensated for their losses . The government of Madras , apprised that war had commenced in Europe , and apprehensive of an attack from 30 the French , became ...
... affairs ; and these persons were eager to be restored to their posts and compensated for their losses . The government of Madras , apprised that war had commenced in Europe , and apprehensive of an attack from 30 the French , became ...
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... Affairs from being in the pay 10 of continental powers , but it is not the less true that a Secre- tary who should receive a secret pension from France would grossly violate his duty , and would deserve severe punishment . Sir John ...
... Affairs from being in the pay 10 of continental powers , but it is not the less true that a Secre- tary who should receive a secret pension from France would grossly violate his duty , and would deserve severe punishment . Sir John ...
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... affairs was at hand . Every ship from Bengal had for some time brought alarming tidings . The internal misgovernment of the province had reached such a point that it could go no further . What , indeed , 10 was to be expected from a ...
... affairs was at hand . Every ship from Bengal had for some time brought alarming tidings . The internal misgovernment of the province had reached such a point that it could go no further . What , indeed , 10 was to be expected from a ...
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... affairs , no nation in the world 25 would be preferable to them , or worthier of command . But the people under their dominion groan everywhere , and are . reduced to poverty and distress . Oh God ! come to the as- sistance of thine ...
... affairs , no nation in the world 25 would be preferable to them , or worthier of command . But the people under their dominion groan everywhere , and are . reduced to poverty and distress . Oh God ! come to the as- sistance of thine ...
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Page 83 - 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 87 - 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.
Page 84 - 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 84 - 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 81 - There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewelry 30 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 83 - 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 83 - 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.