Warren HastingsMacmillan, 1893 - 235 pages |
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... of invective and scorn , his hatred of meanness and in- justice , his lofty imagination , " that noble faculty , " as he himself says in regard to Burke , " whereby man is number who have to able to live in the past PREFACE . ix.
... of invective and scorn , his hatred of meanness and in- justice , his lofty imagination , " that noble faculty , " as he himself says in regard to Burke , " whereby man is number who have to able to live in the past PREFACE . ix.
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... justice and humanity imposed on them . There was no constitutional check on their will , and resistance to them was utterly hopeless . But , though thus absolute in reality , the English had not yet assumed the style of sovereignty ...
... justice and humanity imposed on them . There was no constitutional check on their will , and resistance to them was utterly hopeless . But , though thus absolute in reality , the English had not yet assumed the style of sovereignty ...
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... justice , the details of the col- lection of revenue they almost entirely neglected . We may remark that the phraseology of the Company's servants still bears the traces of this state of things . To this day they always use the word ...
... justice , the details of the col- lection of revenue they almost entirely neglected . We may remark that the phraseology of the Company's servants still bears the traces of this state of things . To this day they always use the word ...
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... justice , the maintenance of order , were 10 left to this high functionary ; and for the exercise of his immense power he was responsible to none but the British masters of the country . A situation so important , lucrative , and ...
... justice , the maintenance of order , were 10 left to this high functionary ; and for the exercise of his immense power he was responsible to none but the British masters of the country . A situation so important , lucrative , and ...
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... justice , under English superintendence , was established . The nabob was no longer to have even an ostensible share in the government ; but he was still to 10 receive a considerable annual allowance , and to be surrounded with the ...
... justice , under English superintendence , was established . The nabob was no longer to have even an ostensible share in the government ; but he was still to 10 receive a considerable annual allowance , and to be surrounded with the ...
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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...