Essay on Lord CliveMacmillan Company, 1907 - 190 pages |
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... he entered Parliament to represent the borough of Calne . He made but two speeches during the session of 1830 , but the independence of thought and the fearlessness 66 of statement used in these made a strong impression xviii INTRODUCTION.
... he entered Parliament to represent the borough of Calne . He made but two speeches during the session of 1830 , but the independence of thought and the fearlessness 66 of statement used in these made a strong impression xviii INTRODUCTION.
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... thought that he could save at least seven thousand pounds a year . While in the East , Macaulay devoted himself energetically to the betterment of the conditions of life there . He found that the English settlers claimed the right of ...
... thought that he could save at least seven thousand pounds a year . While in the East , Macaulay devoted himself energetically to the betterment of the conditions of life there . He found that the English settlers claimed the right of ...
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... thought a striking resemblance by those who knew the original . " When he once undertook a subject , however , he went at it with great enthusiasm , and with a desire to ac- complish the work to the best of his power . To this end he ...
... thought a striking resemblance by those who knew the original . " When he once undertook a subject , however , he went at it with great enthusiasm , and with a desire to ac- complish the work to the best of his power . To this end he ...
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... word that is most likely to carry with it the thought he wishes to communicate . His ideas on this subject are clearly expressed in a letter to Macvey Napier , the editor of the Edinburgh Review , dated INTRODUCTION xxix.
... word that is most likely to carry with it the thought he wishes to communicate . His ideas on this subject are clearly expressed in a letter to Macvey Napier , the editor of the Edinburgh Review , dated INTRODUCTION xxix.
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... thoughts to express , he well knows how to make each one stand out clearly and distinctly by crystallizing it into one single short sen- tence . Instances of this may be found in passages beginning p . 9 , 1. 17 ; p . 64 , 1. 3 ; p . 91 ...
... thoughts to express , he well knows how to make each one stand out clearly and distinctly by crystallizing it into one single short sen- tence . Instances of this may be found in passages beginning p . 9 , 1. 17 ; p . 64 , 1. 3 ; p . 91 ...
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Page 179 - Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; Which long for death, but it cometh not ; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
Page lxiii - THE poesy of this young Lord belongs to the class which neither gods nor men are said to permit. Indeed, we do not recollect to have seen a quantity of verse with so few deviations in either direction from that exact standard. His effusions are spread over a dead flat, and can no more get above or below the level, than if they Were so much stagnant water. As an extenuation...
Page 54 - English captives were left at the mercy of the guards, and the guards determined to secure them for the night in the prison of the garrison, a chamber known by the fearful name of the Black Hole.
Page 68 - ... to engage an army twenty times as numerous as his own. Before him lay a river over which it was easy to advance, but over which, if things went ill, not one of his little band would ever return. On this occasion, for the first and for the last time, his dauntless spirit, during a few hours, shrank from the fearful responsibility of making a decision. He called a council of war. The majority pronounced against fighting, and Clive declared his concurrence with the majority. Long...
Page 54 - When they were ordered to enter the cell, they imagined that the soldiers were joking ; and, being in high spirits on account of the promise of the Nabob to spare their lives, they laughed and jested at the absurdity of the notion. They soon discovered their mistake. They expostulated ; they entreated ; but in vain. The guards threatened to cut down all who hesitated. The captives were driven into the cell at the point of the sword, and the door was instantly shut and locked upon them.
Page 68 - ... it was no light thing to engage an army twenty times as numerous as his own. Before him lay a river over which it was easy to advance, but over which, if things went ill, not one of his little band would ever return.
Page 56 - Nabob had slept off his debauch, and permitted the door to be opened. But it was some time before the soldiers could make a lane for the survivors, by piling up on each side the heaps of corpses on which the burning climate had already begun to do its loathsome work. When at length a passage was made, twenty-three ghastly figures, such as their own mothers would not have known, staggered one by one out of the charnel-house.
Page 69 - ... if he had taken the advice of that council, the British would never have been masters of Bengal. But scarcely had the meeting broken up when he was himself again. He retired alone under the shade of some trees, and passed near an hour there in thought. He came back determined to put everything to the hazard, and gave orders that all should be in readiness for passing the river on the morrow.