Warren HastingsMacmillan, 1893 - 235 pages |
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... British India , which is trustworthy and complete in its facts , and which at the same time possesses the essential quality of literary excellence . Since the earlier part of the present century the old stories of the crimes by which ...
... British India , which is trustworthy and complete in its facts , and which at the same time possesses the essential quality of literary excellence . Since the earlier part of the present century the old stories of the crimes by which ...
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... British Channel , and who , after many fierce and doubtful struggles , yielded at last to the valour and genius of Alfred . But the undoubted splendour of the line of Hastings needs no illustration from fable . One branch of that line ...
... British Channel , and who , after many fierce and doubtful struggles , yielded at last to the valour and genius of Alfred . But the undoubted splendour of the line of Hastings needs no illustration from fable . One branch of that line ...
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... British India , the old philosopher wrote to him , and re- ferred in the most courtly terms , though with great dignity , to their short but agreeable intercourse . Hastings soon began to look again towards India . He had little to ...
... British India , the old philosopher wrote to him , and re- ferred in the most courtly terms , though with great dignity , to their short but agreeable intercourse . Hastings soon began to look again towards India . He had little to ...
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... British masters of the country . A situation so important , lucrative , and splendid , was naturally an object of ambition to the ablest and most powerful natives . Clive had found it difficult to decide between conflicting pretensions ...
... British masters of the country . A situation so important , lucrative , and splendid , was naturally an object of ambition to the ablest and most powerful natives . Clive had found it difficult to decide between conflicting pretensions ...
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... British 20 rulers of his country . Clive was extremely unwilling to place a Mussulman at the head of the administration of Bengal . On the other hand , he could not bring himself to confer immense power on a man to whom every sort of ...
... British 20 rulers of his country . Clive was extremely unwilling to place a Mussulman at the head of the administration of Bengal . On the other hand , he could not bring himself to confer immense power on a man to whom every sort of ...
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Page 111 - 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 112 - ... 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. 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,...
Page 112 - Parr to suspend his labors 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. 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...
Page 110 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great 30 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 111 - 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 110 - Every step in the proceedings carried the mind either backward, through many troubled centuries, to the days when the foundations of our Constitution were laid ; or far away, over boundless seas and deserts, to dusky nations living under strange stars, worshipping strange gods, and writing strange characters from right to left.
Page 113 - ... in amplitude of comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern.
Page 220 - No Mahratta invasion had ever spread through the province such dismay as this inroad of English lawyers. All the injustice of former oppressors, Asiatic and European, appeared as a blessing when compared with the justice of the Supreme Court.
Page 115 - 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 115 - 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...