... court, indicated also habitual self-possession and self-respect, a high and intellectual forehead, a brow pensive, but not gloomy, a mouth of inflexible decision, a face pale and worn, but serene, on which was written, as legibly as under the picture... Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 169by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861Full view - About this book
| 1842 - 654 pages
...which was written, as legibly as under the great picture in the council-chamber at Calcutta, Mens cequa in arduis ; — such was the aspect with which the...profession, — the bold and strong-minded Law, afterwards Chief-justice of the King's Bench ; the more humane and eloquent Dallas, afterwards Chief-justice of... | |
| Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...was written, as legibly as under the great picture in the council-chamber at Calcutta, Mens (Kifiiu in arduis ; — such was the aspect with which the...highest posts in their profession, — the bold and strong minded Law, afterwards Chief Justice of the King's Bench ; the more humane and eloquent Dallas,... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1847 - 478 pages
...which was written, as legibly as under the picture in the council-chamber at Calcutta, Mens (etjua in arduis ; such was the aspect with which the great proconsul presented himself to his judges." • The only other event of any interest associated with Westminster Hall ; — the last occasion also... | |
| Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...pensive, but not gloomy ; — a mouth of inflexible decision ; — a face pale and worn, but serene ; — such was the aspect with which the great proconsul...learning to the highest posts in their profession. But neither the culprit nor his advocates attracted so much notice as the accusers. In the midst of... | |
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 pages
...on which was written, as legibly as under the picture in the council-chamber at Calcutta, Mem cequa in arduis; such was the aspect with which the great proconsul presented himself to his judges. [Trinity College, 1843.] 134. RESENTMENT is, for obvious and wise reasons, one of the strongest passions... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 pages
...face, pale and worn, but on which a great and well-balanced mind was legibly written : such formed the aspect with which the great pro-consul presented himself to his judges. 5. The charges, and the answers of Hastings, were first read. This ceremony occupied two whole daysy... | |
| Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...pensive, but not gloomy ; — a mouth of inflexible decision ; — a face pale and worn, but serene ; — such was the aspect with which the great proconsul...learning to the highest posts in their profession. But neither the culprit nor his advocates attracted so much notice as the accusers. In the midst of... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 pages
...a face, pale and worn, but on which a great and well-balanced mind was legibly written: such formed the aspect with which the great pro-consul presented himself to his judges. 5. The charges, and the answers of Hastings, were first read. This "''ceremony occupied two whole days.... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1078 pages
...on which was written, as legibly as under the picture in the council-chamber at Calcutta, Mens aqua in arduis; such was the aspect with which the great...Chief Justice of the Common Pleas ; and Plomer who, near twenty years later, successfully conducted in the same high court the defence of Lord Melville,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1088 pages
...on which was written, as legibly as under the picture in the council-chamber at Calcutta, Mem cequa in arduis; such was the aspect with which the great...strong-minded Law, afterwards Chief Justice of the O ' King's Bench ; the more humane and eloquent Dallas, afterwards Chief Justice of the Common Pleas... | |
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