 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 726 pages
...was urged on the other side with great force, particularly by Mr. Windham, that impartiality, thougii the first duty of a judge, had never been reckoned...a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative inind. All the various kinds of interest which belong to the near and to the distant, to the present... | |
 | George Eugène Fasnacht - 1897 - 216 pages
...bourdonnement oppression in B. was the de. same, etc. 55. Warren Hastings. I. On the l3th of February l788, the sittings of the Court commenced. There have been...attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then 5 exhibited at Westminster ; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 464 pages
...time, the preparations for the trial had proceeded rapidly; and on the thirteenth of February, 1788, the sittings of the Court commenced. There have been...spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewelry and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1897 - 254 pages
...pieces of prose composition in the entire range of English literature. On the 13th of February, 1788, the sittings of the Court commenced. There have been spectacles more dazzling to 25 the eye, more gorgeous with jewelry and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1897 - 254 pages
...pieces of prose composition in the entire range of English literature. On the 13th of February, 1788, the sittings of the Court commenced. There have been spectacles more dazzling to 25 the eye, more gorgeous with jewelry and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 236 pages
...mean time, the preparations for the trial had proceeded rapidly ; and on the 1 3th of February, 1788, the sittings of the Court commenced. There have been...spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewelry and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1899 - 468 pages
...TRIAL OP WARREN HASTINGS {From Macaulay's < Essay on Warren Hastings,* Edinburgh Review, October 1841) THERE have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewelry and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was exhibited at Westminster;... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1900 - 322 pages
...Court commenced. There have 5 been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewelry and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children,...a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly 10 cultivated, a reflecting, and imaginative mind. All the various kinds of interest which belong to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1900 - 822 pages
...meantime, the preparations for the trial had proceeded rapidly; and on the thirteenth of February, 1788, the sittings of the Court commenced. There have been...spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewelry and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 450 pages
...of the "Pilgrim's Progress." THE IMPEACHMENT OF WARREN HASTINGS ON THE thirteenth of February, 1788, the sittings of the Court commenced. There have been...spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewelry and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited... | |
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There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calculated... 
