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" 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 110
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1907 - 227 pages
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Scenes and characters from the writings of Thomas Babington Macaulay. To ...

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,...
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The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ...

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...
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The Calcutta Review, Volume 14

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...
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Readings in science and literature

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...
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The analysis of sentences explained and systematised, after Beckers' German ...

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....
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Critical and historical essays, contributed to The Edinburgh review, Volume 2

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,...
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The advanced prose and poetical reader, by A.W. Buchan

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...
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The Pictorial Cyclopaedia of Biography: Embracing a Series of Original ...

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,...
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Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of ..., Volume 7

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,...
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The comprehensive dictionary of Biography

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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