 ... 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 - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Erastus Otis Haven - 1869 - 392 pages
...written, as legibly as under the great picture in the council-chamber, 'a mind calm amid difficulties.' Such was the aspect with which the great proconsul presented himself to the judges. " The charges and the answers of Hastings were first read. This ceremony occupied two whole... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 732 pages
...was written, as legibly as under the picture in the councilchamber at Calcutta, Hem cequa in arduisj such was the aspect with which the great proconsul...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,... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...which was written, as legibly as under the great picture in the council-chamber at Calcutta, Mens aqua in arduis; such was the aspect with which the great proconsul presented himself to his judges. twenty years later, successfully conducted in the same high court the defence of Lord Melville, and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 728 pages
...written, as legibly as under the picture in the councilchamber at Calcutta, Hens cequa in curdMis ; such was the aspect with which the great proconsul...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,... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...as under the great picture in the council-chamber at Calcutta, ." a mind calm amid difficulties."* Such was the aspect with which the great proconsul presented himself to his judges. 9. The charges, and the answers of Hastings were first read. This ceremony occupied two whole days,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1874 - 1100 pages
...on which was written, as legibly as under the picture in the council-chamber at Calcutta, Meng cequa in arduis ; such was the aspect with which the great...and strong-minded Law, afterwards Chief Justice of tho King's Bench ; the more humane and eloquent Dallas, afterwards Chief Justice of the Common Pleas... | |
 | Edward Foss - 1874 - 376 pages
...on which was written, as legibly as under the picture in the councilchamber at Calcutta, Mens &qua 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 on which... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...on which was written as legibly as under the picture in the council-chamber at Calcutta, Hens ccqua in arduis : such was the aspect with which the great proconsul presented himself to his judges. But neither the culprit nor his advocates attracted so much notice as the accusers. In the midst of... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1885 - 400 pages
...proconsul presented himself to his judges. His counsel accompanied him; men, all of whom were afterward raised by their talents and learning to the highest posts in their profeseion."— Macanlay — Miscellaneous Essays. 5. Death of William Pitt (p. 242, 1 48).—" ' Austerlitz,'... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1875 - 362 pages
...inflexible decision, a face pale, worn, but serene ; such was the aspect with which the great proconsul 1S presented himself to his judges. " His counsel accompanied...afterwards Chief Justice of the Common Pleas ; and Palmer who, twenty years later, successfully conducted in the same high court the defence of Lord Melville,... | |
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