Warren HastingsCopp, Clark Company (Limited), 1890 - 125 pages |
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... heads of this distinguished family . The main stock , indeed , prospered less than some of the younger shoots . But the Daylesford family , though not ennobled , was wealthy and highly con- sidered , till about two hundred years ago it ...
... heads of this distinguished family . The main stock , indeed , prospered less than some of the younger shoots . But the Daylesford family , though not ennobled , was wealthy and highly con- sidered , till about two hundred years ago it ...
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... head of the young volunteer would 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 company ...
... head of the young volunteer would 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 company ...
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... head of the Government of Bengal . Early in 1772 he quitted Fort St. George for his new post . The Imhoffs , who were still man and wife , accom- panied him , and lived at Calcutta on the same plan which they had already followed during ...
... head of the Government of Bengal . Early in 1772 he quitted Fort St. George for his new post . The Imhoffs , who were still man and wife , accom- panied him , and lived at Calcutta on the same plan which they had already followed during ...
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... head of the internal administration of a whole presidency , but unfortunately quite ignorant of all political business . The internal government of Bengal the English rulers delegated to a great native minister , who was stationed at ...
... head of the internal administration of a whole presidency , but unfortunately quite ignorant of all political business . The internal government of Bengal the English rulers delegated to a great native minister , who was stationed at ...
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... head of the administration of Bengal . On the other hand , he could not bring himself to confer immense power on a man to whom every sort of villainy had repeatedly been brought home . Therefore , though the Nabob , over whom Nuncomar ...
... head of the administration of Bengal . On the other hand , he could not bring himself to confer immense power on a man to whom every sort of villainy had repeatedly been brought home . Therefore , though the Nabob , over whom Nuncomar ...
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Page 107 - 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 107 - 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 106 - Every step in the proceedings carried the mind either backward, through many troubled centuries, to the days when the foundations of our constitution were laid; or far away, over boundless seas and deserts, to dusky nations living under strange stars, worshipping strange gods, and writing strange characters, from right to left.
Page 107 - The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator. 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.
Page 110 - The energy and pathos of the great orator extorted expressions of unwonted admiration from the stern and hostile chancellor, and for a moment seemed to pierce even the resolute heart of the defendant. The ladies in the galleries, unaccustomed to such displays of eloquence, excited by the solemnity of the occasion, and perhaps not unwilling to display their .taste and sensibility, were in a state of uncontrollable emotion. Handkerchiefs were pulled out, smelling bottles were handed round, hysterical...
Page 31 - During that interval the business of a servant of the Company was simply to wring out of the natives a hundred or two hundred thousand pounds as speedily as possible, that he might return home before his constitution had suffered from the heat, to marry a peer's daughter, to buy rotten boroughs in Cornwall, and to give balls in St. James's Square.
Page 108 - 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 110 - The charges, and the answers of Hastings, were first read. The ceremony occupied two whole days, and was rendered less tedious than it would otherwise have been by the silver voice and just emphasis of Cowper, the clerk of the court, a near relation of the amiable poet.
Page 106 - 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 109 - ... of comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern. There, with eyes reverentially fixed on Burke, appeared the finest gentleman of the age, his form developed by every manly exercise, his face beaming with intelligence and spirit, the ingenious, the chivalrous, the high-souled Windham. Nor, though surrounded by such men, did the youngest manager pass unnoticed. At an age when most of those who...