Macaulay's Essay on Warren HastingsMacmillan & Company, 1907 - 227 pages |
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... enemies . He had never been compelled to make a choice between innocence and greatness , between crime and ruin . Firmly as he held in theory the doctrine of human depravity , his habits were such that he was unable to conceive how far ...
... enemies . He had never been compelled to make a choice between innocence and greatness , between crime and ruin . Firmly as he held in theory the doctrine of human depravity , his habits were such that he was unable to conceive how far ...
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... enemies who afterwards perse- cuted him would not have failed to discover and to proclaim his guilt . The keen , severe , and even malevolent scrutiny to which his whole public life was subjected , a scrutiny unparalleled , as we ...
... enemies who afterwards perse- cuted him would not have failed to discover and to proclaim his guilt . The keen , severe , and even malevolent scrutiny to which his whole public life was subjected , a scrutiny unparalleled , as we ...
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... enemy , so long envied , so implacably persecuted , had been dismissed unhurt . The situation so long and ardently desired had been abolished . It was natural that the Governor should be from that time an object of the most intense ...
... enemy , so long envied , so implacably persecuted , had been dismissed unhurt . The situation so long and ardently desired had been abolished . It was natural that the Governor should be from that time an object of the most intense ...
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... enemy , " says Colonel Champion , " gave proof of a good share of military knowledge ; and it is impossible 20 to describe a ... enemies , whom they had never dared to look in the face . The soldiers of the Company , trained in an exact ...
... enemy , " says Colonel Champion , " gave proof of a good share of military knowledge ; and it is impossible 20 to describe a ... enemies , whom they had never dared to look in the face . The soldiers of the Company , trained in an exact ...
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... enemies have never denied that he had a fearless and manly spirit ; and his friends , we are afraid , must acknowledge that his estimate of himself was extrava- gantly high , that his temper was irritable , that his deport- ment was ...
... enemies have never denied that he had a fearless and manly spirit ; and his friends , we are afraid , must acknowledge that his estimate of himself was extrava- gantly high , that his temper was irritable , that his deport- ment was ...
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