 I do not trust to Mr. Francis's promises of candour, convinced that he is incapable of it. I judge of his public conduct by his private, which I have found to be void of truth and honour.  Warren Hastings - Page 91by Thomas Babington Macaulay baron Macaulay - 1886 - 183 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 842 pages
...recorded on the Consultations of the Government, ' I do not trust to Mr. Francis's promises of candour, convinced that he is incapable of it. I judge of his...private, which I have found to be void of truth and honour/ After the Council had risen, Francis put a challenge into the Governor-General's hand. It was... | |
 | Otto Jespersen - 1914 - 640 pages
...luck and bad \ Gissing G 200 if the furniture is sold, shall I be able to buy new"? \ Macaulay E 4.277 I judge of his public conduct by his private, which I have found to be void of truth and honour | Dickinson S 15 Our private business is intermixed with our public \ Wilde In 99 the creative... | |
 | William H. Graves - 1917 - 220 pages
...Mr. Hastings, in answering a minute of Francis, declared, 'I do not trust to his promise of candour, convinced that he is incapable of it. I judge of his public conduct by my experience of his private, which I have found to be devoid of truth and honour.' The ground of these... | |
 | Edward Gilliat - 1919 - 410 pages
...; BO that the latter, irritated beyond endurance, said, " I do not trust to his promise of candour, convinced that he is incapable of it. I judge of his public conduct by my experience of his private, which I have found devoid of truth and honour." Francis replied, " No... | |
 | Otto Jespersen - 1922 - 526 pages
...luck and bad \ Gissing G 200 if the furniture is sold, shall I be able to buy new? \ Macaulay E 4.277 I judge of his public conduct by his private, which I have found to be void of truth and honour | Dickinson S 15 O.ur private business is intermixed with our public \ Wilde In 99 the creative... | |
 | Eliza Fay - 1925 - 326 pages
...Francis'. It is full of deliberate insults, such as "I judge of his public conduct by my experience of his private, which I have found to be void of truth and honour." A challenge arrived in due course. Francis, who had courage, entered in his journal for August... | |
 | Richard Ellmann - 1989 - 534 pages
...shooting him in a duel. Hastings had said of Francis, 'I judge of his public conduct by my experience of his private, which I have found to be void of truth and honour', and Strachey observes nicely, 'after such words as these, a recourse to arms seems, even in... | |
 | Sailendra Nath Sen - 1994 - 244 pages
...to promote public interests. Hastings declared, 'I judge of his public conduct by my experience of his private which I have found to be void of truth and honour.'11 This was a severe charge and according to the convention of the day a duel took place between... | |
 | Nicholas B. Dirks - 2006 - 424 pages
...discordant government, not a constitutional decay. I judge of his public conduct by my experience of his private, which I have found to be void of truth and honor. This is a severe charge, but temperately and deliberately made from the firm persuasion that I owe... | |
 | Michael Edwardes - 1976 - 228 pages
...recorded on the Consultations of the 25 Government, " I do not trust to Mr Francis's promises of candour, convinced that he is incapable of it. I judge of his...private, which I have found to be void of truth and honour." After the Council had risen, Francis put a challenge into the Governor-General's hand. It... | |
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