 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, worshipping...  The American Eclectic - Page 4781842Full view - About this book
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1842 - 642 pages
...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 Benares, and the ladies of the princely house of Oude. " The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus ; the hall which... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 pages
...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 Benares, and the ladies of the princely house of Oude. The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus; the hall which... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...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...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
...1217. CHAP. CLIX. Tliurlow's address to Hastings on his arraign, ment. Bliss Burney's account of it. writing strange characters from right to left. The High Court of Parliament was to sit according to forma handed down from the days of the Plantagenets, on an Englishman accused of exercising tyranny... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 536 pages
...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,...tyranny over the lord of the holy city of Benares, and over the ladies of the princely House of Oude." After the proclamation was made in Westminster Hall... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...the constitution were laid ; or far away, over boundless seas and deserts, to dusky nations of India, living under strange stars, worshipping strange gods,...tyranny over the lord of the holy city of Benares, and over the ladies of the princelyhouse of Oude. The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...the constitution were laid ; or far away, over boundless seas and deserts, to dusky nations of India, living under strange stars, worshipping strange gods,...tyranny over the lord of the holy city of Benares, and over the ladies of the princely house of Oude. The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great... | |
 | 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
...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, worbhipping strange gods, and writing sit, according to forms handed from the days of the Plantagenets,... | |
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