Miscellaneous Works of Lord Macaulay: Critical and historical essaysHarper & brothers, 1880 |
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... soon became too busy , for literary pur- suits . But neither climate nor poverty , neither study nor the sor- rows of a homesick exile , could tame the desperate audacity of his spirit . He behaved to his official superiors as he had ...
... soon became too busy , for literary pur- suits . But neither climate nor poverty , neither study nor the sor- rows of a homesick exile , could tame the desperate audacity of his spirit . He behaved to his official superiors as he had ...
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... soon followed to com- plete the work of devastation which the Persian had begun . The warlike tribes of Rajpootana threw off the Mussulman yoke . A band of mercenary soldiers occupied Rohilcund . The Seiks ruled on the Indus . The Jauts ...
... soon followed to com- plete the work of devastation which the Persian had begun . The warlike tribes of Rajpootana threw off the Mussulman yoke . A band of mercenary soldiers occupied Rohilcund . The Seiks ruled on the Indus . The Jauts ...
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... soon to conquer and to rule them . They had seen the French colors flying on Fort St. George ; they had seen the chiefs of the English fac- tory led in triumph through the streets of Pondicherry ; they had seen the arms and counsels of ...
... soon to conquer and to rule them . They had seen the French colors flying on Fort St. George ; they had seen the chiefs of the English fac- tory led in triumph through the streets of Pondicherry ; they had seen the arms and counsels of ...
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... soon carried to Chunda Sahib , who , with his French allies , was besieging Trichinop- oly . He immediately detached four thousand men from his camp and sent them to Arcot . They were speedily joined by the remains of the force which ...
... soon carried to Chunda Sahib , who , with his French allies , was besieging Trichinop- oly . He immediately detached four thousand men from his camp and sent them to Arcot . They were speedily joined by the remains of the force which ...
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... soon quelled the courage even of fanaticism and of intoxication . The rear ranks of the English kept the front ranks supplied with a constant succession of loaded muskets , and every shot told on the living mass below . After three ...
... soon quelled the courage even of fanaticism and of intoxication . The rear ranks of the English kept the front ranks supplied with a constant succession of loaded muskets , and every shot told on the living mass below . After three ...
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Page 251 - ... beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay'. There were the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs.
Page 366 - Yet there was no want of low minds and bad hearts in the generation which witnessed her first appearance. There was the envious Kenrick and the savage Wolcot, the asp George Steevens, and the polecat John Williams. It did not, however, occur to them to search the parish register of Lynn, in order that they might be able to twit a lady with having concealed her age. That truly chivalrous exploit was reserved for a bad writer of our own time, whose spite she had provoked by not furnishing him with...
Page 250 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of...
Page 267 - With all his faults — and they were neither few nor small— only one cemetery was worthy to contain his remains. In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall, the dust of the illustrious accused should have mingled with the dust of the illustrious accusers.
Page 450 - I fared like a distressed prince, who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid; I was undone by my auxiliary; when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.
Page 480 - House — a house which can boast of a greater number of inmates distinguished in political and literary history than any other private dwelling in England.
Page 255 - When the deep murmur of various emotions had subsided, Mr. Fox rose to address the Lords respecting the course of proceeding to be followed. The wish of the accusers was that the Court would bring to a close the investigation of the first charge before the second was opened. The wish of Hastings and of his...
Page 388 - A scene almost horrible ensued," says Miss Burney. " She was too much enraged for disguise, and uttered the most furious expressions of indignant contempt at our proceedings. I am sure she would gladly have confined us both in the Bastile, had England such a misery, as a fit place to bring us to ourselves from a daring so outrageous against imperial wishes.
Page 204 - Vansittart, would at length find courage in despair. No Mahratta invasion had ever spread through the province such dismay as this inroad of English lawyers. All the injustice of former oppressors, Asiatic and European, appeared as a blessing when compared with the justice of the Supreme Court.
Page 172 - The directors dealt with India, as the church, in the good old times, dealt with a heretic. They delivered the victim over to the executioners, with an earnest request that all possible tenderness might be shown. We by no means accuse or suspect those who framed these despatches of hypocrisy. It is probable that, writing fifteen...