Macaulay's Essay on Warren HastingsMacmillan, 1900 - 227 pages |
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... human depravity , his habits were such that he was 15 unable to conceive how far from the path of right even kind and noble natures may be hurried by the rage of conflict and the lust of dominion . Hastings had another associate at ...
... human depravity , his habits were such that he was 15 unable to conceive how far from the path of right even kind and noble natures may be hurried by the rage of conflict and the lust of dominion . Hastings had another associate at ...
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... humanity imposed on them . There was no constitu- tional 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 . They 25 held ...
... humanity imposed on them . There was no constitu- tional 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 . They 25 held ...
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... human nature only as it appears in our island . What the Italian is to the Englishman , what the Hindoo is to the Italian , what the Bengalee is to other Hindoos , that was Nuncomar to other Bengalees . The physical organization of the ...
... human nature only as it appears in our island . What the Italian is to the Englishman , what the Hindoo is to the Italian , what the Bengalee is to other Hindoos , that was Nuncomar to other Bengalees . The physical organization of the ...
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... to the armies of the Company . But as usurers , as money - changers , as sharp legal practitioners , no 25 class of human beings can bear a comparison with 15 them . With all his softness , the Bengalee is 26 MACAULAY'S ESSAY.
... to the armies of the Company . But as usurers , as money - changers , as sharp legal practitioners , no 25 class of human beings can bear a comparison with 15 them . With all his softness , the Bengalee is 26 MACAULAY'S ESSAY.
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... human beings is bound to take order that such power shall not be 10 barbarously abused ? But we beg pardon of our readers for arguing a point so clear . We hasten to the end of this sad and disgraceful story . The war ceased . The ...
... human beings is bound to take order that such power shall not be 10 barbarously abused ? But we beg pardon of our readers for arguing a point so clear . We hasten to the end of this sad and disgraceful story . The war ceased . The ...
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Page 173 - Heathfield, recently ennobled for his memorable defence of Gibraltar against the fleets and armies of France and Spain. The long procession was closed by the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of the realm, by the great dignitaries, and by the brothers and sons of the King. Last of all came the Prince of Wales, conspicuous by his fine person and noble bearing. The gray old walls were hung with scarlet. The...
Page 179 - 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 !" When the deep murmur of various emotions had subsided,...
Page 172 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great 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 Strafford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party inflamed with just resentment, the hall where Charles had confronted the High Court of Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his fame.
Page 179 - I impeach Warren Hastings of high crimes and misdemeanors. 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 175 - 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 173 - 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 172 - ... 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 Kingat-arms.
Page 175 - 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 154 - ... descending the steps to the riverside, the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and the silver maces, the elephants with their canopies of state, the gorgeous palanquin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady, all these things were to him as the objects amidst which his own life had been passed, as the objects which lay on the road between Beaconsfield and St.
Page 173 - The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator.