Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Bernh. Tauchnitz jun., 1850 - 349 pages |
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Page 35
... human depravity , when cruelty becomes pleasing for its own sake , when the sight of pain , as pain , where no ad- vantage is to be gained , no offence punished , no danger averted , is an agreeable excitement . It had early been his ...
... human depravity , when cruelty becomes pleasing for its own sake , when the sight of pain , as pain , where no ad- vantage is to be gained , no offence punished , no danger averted , is an agreeable excitement . It had early been his ...
Page 68
... human beings were reduced to the extremity of wretchedness . They had been accustomed to live under tyranny , but never under tyranny like this . They found the little finger of the Com- pany thicker than the loins of Surajah Dowlah ...
... human beings were reduced to the extremity of wretchedness . They had been accustomed to live under tyranny , but never under tyranny like this . They found the little finger of the Com- pany thicker than the loins of Surajah Dowlah ...
Page 81
... human nature were stirred against the wretch who had obtained by guilt and dishonour the riches which he now lavished with arrogant and inelegant profusion . The unfortunate Nabob seemed to be made up of those foibles against which ...
... human nature were stirred against the wretch who had obtained by guilt and dishonour the riches which he now lavished with arrogant and inelegant profusion . The unfortunate Nabob seemed to be made up of those foibles against which ...
Page 84
... feeble survivors had not energy enough to bear the bodies of their kindred to the funeral pile or to the holy river , or even to scare away the jackals and vultures , who fed on human remains in the face of day . The 84 LORD CLIVE .
... feeble survivors had not energy enough to bear the bodies of their kindred to the funeral pile or to the holy river , or even to scare away the jackals and vultures , who fed on human remains in the face of day . The 84 LORD CLIVE .
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Thomas Babington Macaulay. on human remains in the face of day . The extent of the mor- tality was never ascertained ... humanity were touched by the calamities of our unhappy subjects ; and indignation soon began to mingle itself with ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay. on human remains in the face of day . The extent of the mor- tality was never ascertained ... humanity were touched by the calamities of our unhappy subjects ; and indignation soon began to mingle itself with ...
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