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The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete: Critical and historical essays - Page 628
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897
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Warren Hastings

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 262 pages
...the mind either backward, through many troubled centuries, to the days when the foundations of our 20 constitution were laid ; or far away, over boundless...days of the Plantagenets, on an Englishman accused of i exercising tyranny over the lord of the holy city of ) Benares, and over the ladies of the princely...
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Studies in Structure and Style: (based on Seven Modern English Essays)

William Tenney Brewster - 1896 - 312 pages
...carried the mind either backward through many troubled centuries to the days when 5 the foundations of our constitution were laid; or far away over boundless...writing strange characters from right to left." The odd triviality of the last detail, 10 its unworthiness of the sentiment of the passage, leaves the...
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Paragraph-writing: A Rhetoric for Colleges

Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denny, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1909 - 494 pages
..." 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...deserts, to dusky nations living under strange stars, worshiping strange gods, and writing strange characters from right to left." The odd triviality of...
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Macmillan's course of French composition. 2nd course. [With] Teacher's and ...

George Eugène Fasnacht - 1897 - 216 pages
...8. say to-the objects near (voisins) here). and to-the objects far 12. say which they could borrow away, over boundless seas and deserts, to dusky nations...days of the Plantagenets, on an Englishman accused 20 of exercising tyranny over the lord of the holy city of Benares, and over the ladies of the princely...
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Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern

Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 464 pages
...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...deserts, to dusky nations living under strange stars, worshiping strange gods, and writing strange characters from right to left. The High Court of Parliament...
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Studies in English Composition: With Lessons in Language and Rhetoric

Harriet Louise Keeler, Emma C. Davis - 1897 - 232 pages
...it. LESSON LYIL — HISTORICAL SUBJECTS. EXERCISE I. MODEL FOR STUDY. THE TRIAL OF WARREN HASTINGS. The High Court of Parliament was to sit, according to forms handed down from the days of the Plaiitagenets, on an Englishman accused of exercising tyranny over the lord of the holy city of Benares,...
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School Reading by Grades: Eighth Year

James Baldwin - 1897 - 254 pages
...either i0 backward, through many troubled centuries to the days when the foundations cf the English constitution were laid ; or far away, over boundless...deserts, to dusky nations living under strange stars, worshiping strange gods, and writing strange characters from right 15 to left. The High Court of Parliament...
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School Reading by Grades: First [-eighth] Year, Book 8

James Baldwin - 1897 - 254 pages
...either 10 backward, through many troubled centuries to the days when the foundations of the English constitution were laid ; or far away, over boundless...deserts, to dusky nations living under strange stars, worshiping strange gods, and writing strange characters from right 15 to left. The High Court of Parliament...
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Elements of Rhetoric: A Course in Plain Prose Composition

Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1898 - 426 pages
...carried the mind either backward, through many troubled centuries, to the days when the foundations of our constitution were laid ; or far away, over...and writing strange characters from right to left. Many examples of a similar incongruity can be found in the news columns of daily papers. The practice...
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Lord Macaulay: The Task of the Modern Historian; The Puritans; The Trial of ...

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 236 pages
...the mind either backward, through many troubled centuries, to the days when tha foundations of the constitution were laid ; or far away, over boundless...deserts, to dusky nations living under strange stars, wor. shipping strange gods, and writing strange characters from right to left. The High Court of Parliament...
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