Warren Hastings, ed. by S. HalesLongmans, Green, and Company, 1883 - 208 pages |
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... princes , had got abroad , and adventurous men , attracted by these stories , re- solved to try their fortunes there . It was a serious undertaking in those days . On board a comfortable steamer , going through the Suez Canal , the ...
... princes , had got abroad , and adventurous men , attracted by these stories , re- solved to try their fortunes there . It was a serious undertaking in those days . On board a comfortable steamer , going through the Suez Canal , the ...
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... princes , men of inferior ability succeeded to the throne , the viceroys in different parts of the country achieved , or partly achieved , their independence . This was particularly the case in Southern India , which was farthest from ...
... princes , men of inferior ability succeeded to the throne , the viceroys in different parts of the country achieved , or partly achieved , their independence . This was particularly the case in Southern India , which was farthest from ...
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... prince who , by an authority ostensibly derived from the Mogul , but really independent , ruled the 15 three great provinces of Bengal , Orissa , and Bahar . At Moorshedabad were the court , the harem , and the public offices ...
... prince who , by an authority ostensibly derived from the Mogul , but really independent , ruled the 15 three great provinces of Bengal , Orissa , and Bahar . At Moorshedabad were the court , the harem , and the public offices ...
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... be more useful than his arm . When , after the battle of Plassey , Meer Jaffier was proclaimed Nabob of Bengal , Hastings was appointed to reside at the court of the new prince as agent for the Com- WARREN HASTINGS . 9.
... be more useful than his arm . When , after the battle of Plassey , Meer Jaffier was proclaimed Nabob of Bengal , Hastings was appointed to reside at the court of the new prince as agent for the Com- WARREN HASTINGS . 9.
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... prince as agent for the Com- pany . He remained at Moorshedabad till the year 1761 , when he became a Member of Council , and was con- 5 sequently forced to reside at Calcutta . This was during the interval between Clive's first and ...
... prince as agent for the Com- pany . He remained at Moorshedabad till the year 1761 , when he became a Member of Council , and was con- 5 sequently forced to reside at Calcutta . This was during the interval between Clive's first and ...
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Page 136 - There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons.
Page 137 - ... treaties, had sent forth armies, had set up and pulled down princes. And in his high place he had so borne himself, that all had feared him, that most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory, except virtue. He looked like a great man, and not like a bad man. A person small and emaciated, yet deriving dignity from a carriage which, while it indicated deference to the court, indicated also habitual self-possession and selfrespect, a high and intellectual forehead,...
Page 137 - He had ruled an extensive and populous country, had made laws and treaties, had sent forth armies, had set up and pulled down princes. And in his high place he had so borne himself, that all had feared him, that most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory, except virtue. He looked like a great man, and not like a bad man.
Page 141 - House of Parliament, whose trust he has betrayed. I impeach him in the name of the English nation, whose ancient honor he has sullied. I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose rights he has trodden under foot, and whose country he has turned into a desert. Lastly, in the name of human nature itself, in the name of both sexes, in the name of every age, in the name of every rank, I impeach the common enemy and oppressor of all !" When the deep murmur of various emotions had subsided,...
Page 135 - 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 19 - What the horns are to the buffalo, what the paw is to the tiger, what the sting is to the bee, what beauty, according to the old Greek song, is to woman, deceit is to the Bengalee. Large promises, smooth excuses, elaborate tissues of circumstantial falsehood, chicanery, perjury, forgery, are the weapons, offensive and defensive, of the people of the Lower Ganges.
Page 136 - There the ambassadors of great kings and commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could present. There Siddons, in the prime of her majestic beauty, looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitations of the stage. There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa.
Page 134 - There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind.
Page 136 - Heathfield, recently ennobled for his memorable defence of Gibraltar against the fleets and armies of France and Spain. The long procession was closed by the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of the realm, by the great dignitaries, and by the brothers and sons of the King. Last of all came the Prince of Wales, conspicuous by his fine person and noble bearing. The gray old walls were hung with scarlet. The...
Page 136 - There were gathered together, from all parts of a great, free, enlightened, and prosperous empire, grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every science and of every art. There were seated round the queen the fair-haired young daughters of the house of Brunswick. There the ambassadors of great kings and commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could present.