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,... Macaulay's Essay on Warren Hastings - Page 110by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1907 - 227 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...the mind either backward, through many troubled centuries, to the days when the foundations of the constitution were laid ; or far away, over boundless...according to forms handed down from the days of the PJantagenets, on an Englishman accused of exercising tyranny over the lord of the holy city of Benares,... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1846 - 708 pages
...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...under strange stars, worshipping strange gods, and * 26 Parl. Hist. 1217. CHAP. CLIX. Tliurlow's address to Hastings on his arraign, ment. Bliss Burney's... | |
| 1850 - 612 pages
...hour — the noble Burke ; and himself to sit in judgment over those nations, " living under atnnge 'stars, worshipping strange gods, and writing strange characters, ' from right to left," among whom the orator was transporting his audience. Little could Sir James have thought, that he would... | |
| Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...the mind either backward, through many troubled centuries, to the days when the foundations of the constitution were laid ; or far away, over boundless seas and deserts, to dusky nations of India, living under strange stars, worshipping strange gods, and writing strange characters from... | |
| John Daniel Morell - 1854 - 128 pages
...atmosphere around us. 1 2. Lastly came winter, clothed all in frieze, Chattering hia teeth for cold. 13. The High Court of Parliament was to sit according to forms handed down from the days of the Plantageuets, on an Englishman, accused of exercising tyranny over the lord of the holy city of Benares.... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1854 - 452 pages
...the mind cither backward, through many troubled centuries, to the days when the foundations of our constitution were laid ; or far away, over boundless...deserts, to dusky nations living under strange stars, worbhipping strange gods, and writing sit, according to forms handed from the days of the Plantagenets,... | |
| Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...the mind either backward, through many troubled centuries, to the days when the foundations of the constitution were laid ; or far away, over boundless seas and deserts, to dusky nations of India, living under strange stars, worshipping strange gods, and writing strange characters from... | |
| Elihu Rich - 1856 - 1080 pages
...Burke on 4th April, 1786. The trial was begun'on 13th February, 1788, when, according to Mr. Macaulay, 'The high court of Parliament was to sit according to forms handed down from the days of the Plnntagenets, on an Englishman accused of exercising tyranny over the lord of the holy city of Benares,... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1857 - 480 pages
...carried the mind either backward through mnny troubled centuries to the days when the foundations of our constitution were laid ; or far away over boundless...according to forms handed down from the days of the Plautagenets, on an Englishman accused of exercising tyrauny over the lord of the holy city of Benares,... | |
| Comprehensive dictionary - 1860 - 1080 pages
...Burke m 4th April, 1786. The trial was begun on 13th February, 1788, when, according to Mr. MacauUr, 'The high court of Parliament was to sit according to forms handed down from the days of the Plimtagenets, on an Englishman accused of exercising tyranny over the lord of the holy city of Benares,... | |
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