Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 5-6A.C. Armstrong, 1860 |
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... person seemed so likely to furnish it as Hastings , who was a prisoner at large in the immediate neighbourhood of the court . He thus became a diplomatic agent , and soon established a high character for ability and resolution . The ...
... person seemed so likely to furnish it as Hastings , who was a prisoner at large in the immediate neighbourhood of the court . He thus became a diplomatic agent , and soon established a high character for ability and resolution . The ...
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... person , a cultivated mind , and manners in the highest degree engaging . She despised her husband heartily , and , as the story which we have to tell sufficiently proves , not without reason . She was interested by the conversation and ...
... person , a cultivated mind , and manners in the highest degree engaging . She despised her husband heartily , and , as the story which we have to tell sufficiently proves , not without reason . She was interested by the conversation and ...
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... person to confer little services . It not seldom happens that serious distress and danger call forth , in genuine ... persons whose accomplishments would have at- tracted notice in any court of Europe . The gentleman had no domestic ties ...
... person to confer little services . It not seldom happens that serious distress and danger call forth , in genuine ... persons whose accomplishments would have at- tracted notice in any court of Europe . The gentleman had no domestic ties ...
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... person had been confided to the minister . Nuncomar , stimulated at once by cupidity and malice , had been constantly attempting to hurt the reputation of his successful rival . This was not difficult . The revenues of Bengal , under ...
... person had been confided to the minister . Nuncomar , stimulated at once by cupidity and malice , had been constantly attempting to hurt the reputation of his successful rival . This was not difficult . The revenues of Bengal , under ...
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... person and property . His person was intrusted to a lady of his father's harem , known by the name of the Munny Begum . The office of treasurer of the household was bestowed on a son of Nuncomar , named Goordas . Nuncomar's services ...
... person and property . His person was intrusted to a lady of his father's harem , known by the name of the Munny Begum . The office of treasurer of the household was bestowed on a son of Nuncomar , named Goordas . Nuncomar's services ...
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Page 128 - 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 murmnr of various emotions had subsided,...
Page 124 - ... had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There, too, was she, the 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.
Page 374 - Booth to his box, and gave him fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator.
Page 125 - ... 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. 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 self-respect, a high and intellectual...
Page 128 - I impeach him in the name of the Commons House of Parliament, whose trust he has betrayed. I impeach him in the name of the English nation, whose ancient honor he has sullied.
Page 124 - 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 123 - Strafford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party inflamed with just resentment, the hall where Charles had confronted the High Court of Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his fame.
Page 356 - like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbor 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 144 - 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 17 - The physical organization of the Bengalee is feeble, even to effeminacy. He lives in a constant vapour bath. His pursuits are sedentary, his limbs delicate, his movements languid. During many ages he has been trampled upon by men of bolder and more hardy breeds.