 | John Adolphus - 1841 - 638 pages
...in a very high degree, his punishment, as an example, required both by justice and policy ; and he determined to make him pay largely for his pardon,...exact a severe vengeance for his past delinquency*. Actuated by such feelings, the demeanour of the * Hastings,s Narrative, printed at Caleutta. CHAP.... | |
 | 1842 - 654 pages
...words of Hastings himself, " to draw from his guilt the means of relief to the Company's distresses — to make him pay largely for his pardon, or to exact a severe vengeance for past delinquency." The plan was simply this — to demand larger and larger contributions, till the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 pages
...of Hastings himself, "to draw from his guilt the means of relief to the Company's distresses,—to make him pay largely for his pardon, or to exact a severe vengeance for past delinquency." The plan was simply this—to demand larger and larger contributions, till the Rajah... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1844 - 1184 pages
...I was resolved," says he, " to draw from his guilt the means of relief to the Company's distresses. In a word, I had determined to make him pay largely...exact a severe vengeance for his past delinquency."* In an agony of alarm at the governor-general's silence and at loud notes of preparation among the Company's... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1847 - 220 pages
...I was resolved," says he, " to draw from his guilt the means of relief to the Company's distresses. In a word, I had determined to make him pay largely...exact a severe vengeance for his past delinquency." In a word Mr. Hastings was resolved to imitate the Oriental despotisms in one of their worst features,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 354 pages
...words of Hastings himself, "to draw from his guilt the means of relief to the Company's distresses, — to make him pay largely for his pardon, or to exact a severe vengeance for past delinquency." The plan was simply this — to demand larger and larger contributions, till the... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan, George Gabriel Sigmond - 1857 - 592 pages
...treatment, Hastings went himself to Benares, and demanded half a million ; " determined to make Cheyte Sing pay largely for his pardon, or to exact a severe vengeance for past delinquency." The prince, notwithstanding every attempt to conciliate the Governor, was made prisoner... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1088 pages
...of Hastings himself, — " to draw from his guilt the means of relief of the Company's distresses, to make him pay largely for his pardon, or to exact a severe vengeance for past delinquency." The plan was simply this, to demand larger und larger contributions till the Rajah... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 588 pages
...of Hastings himself, — " to draw from his guilt the means of relief of the Company's distresses, to make him pay largely for his pardon, or to exact a severe vengeance for past delinquency." The plan was simply this, to demand larger and larger contributions till the Rajah... | |
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I resolved," — these are the words of Hastings himself, — "to draw from his guilt the means of relief to the Company's distresses, to make him pay largely for his pardon, or to exact a severe vengeance for past delinquency. 
