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" ... made laws and treaties, had sent forth armies, had set up and pulled down princes. And in his high place he had so borne himself, that all had feared him, that most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory except virtue.... "
Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 125
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860
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Essays on Clive and Hastings

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1911 - 346 pages
...most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory, except virtue. He looked like a great man, and not like a bad man. A person...from a carriage which, while it indicated deference 30 to the court, indicated also habitual self-possession and self-respect, a high and intellectual...
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Essay on Warren Hastings

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1911 - 328 pages
...most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory, except virtue. He looked like a great man, and not like a bad man. • A person small and emaciated, yet deriving dignity from 10 a carriage which, while it indicated deference to the court, indicated also habitual self-possession...
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The Private Life of Warren Hastings, First Governor-General of India

Sir Charles Lawson - 1911 - 290 pages
...this book by the Swan Electric Engraving Company, is given opposite p. 36. 2 Macaulay refers to " the face pale and worn, but serene, on which was written as legibly as under the picture in the Council Chamber at Calcutta, 1 Mens aqua in arduis.' " There is a copy of the picture both in the Council...
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Macaulay's Essay on Lord Clive

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1912 - 340 pages
...most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory, except virtue. He looked like a great man, and not like a bad man. A person...indicated deference to the court, indicated also habitual self1s possession and self-respect, a high and intellectual forehead, a brow pensive, but not gloomy,...
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Anglia: Zeitschrift für englische Philologie, Volume 42

1918 - 500 pages
...Macaulay, Warren Hastings. A person small and emaciated, yet deriving dignity from a carriage tvhich, while it indicated deference to the court, indicated also habitual selfpossession and self-respect. Meredith, Sandra Belloni 89. Lady Gosstrc, as she was being conducted to her carriage had pronounced...
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Reading-literature, Book 8

1919 - 478 pages
...most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory, except virtue. He looked like a great man, and not like a bad man. A person...serene, on which was written, as legibly as under the great picture in the Council-chamber at Calcutta, Mens aequa in arduis (A mind undisturbed in difficulties)...
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McGuffey's First [-sixth] Eclectic Reader, Volume 6

William Holmes McGuffey - 1921 - 506 pages
...him, that most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory, except virtue. A person, small and emaciated, yet deriving dignity...decision ; a face, pale and worn, but serene, on which a great and wellbalanced mind was legibly written: such was the aspect with which the great proconsul...
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A Life of Lieutenant-General Sir Eyre Coote, K. B.

1922 - 536 pages
...later, when the reward of his great administration was his impeachment in Westminster Hall : ' He looked like a great man, and not like a bad man. A person...gloomy, a mouth of inflexible decision, a face pale and wan, but serene, on which was written, as legibly as under the picture in the council-chamber at Calcutta,...
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The Glory of English Prose: Letters to My Grandson

Stephen Coleridge - 1922 - 256 pages
...most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory, except virtue. He looked like a great man, and not like a bad man. A person...and intellectual forehead, a brow pensive, but not 176 gloomy, a mouth of inflexible decision, a face pale and worn, but serene, on which was written,...
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Journeys Through Bookland: A New and Original Plan for Reading ..., Volume 9

Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1922 - 530 pages
...most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory, except virtue. He looked like a great man, and not like a bad man. A person...it indicated deference to the court, indicated also 19. Samuel Parr (1747-1825), a once noted English scholar. 20. This was Mrs. Fitzherbert, whom the...
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