 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1910 - 326 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1910 - 300 pages
...for the trial had proceeded rapidly; and on the thirteenth of February, 1788, the sittings \V" • 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... | |
 | Edwin Gordon Lawrence - 1911 - 278 pages
...attending the impeachment of Warren Hastings, is a marvellous piece of wordpicturing. It is as follows : There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye,...then exhibited at Westminster, but, perhaps, there was never a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly-cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1911 - 328 pages
...Court commenced. There have 5 been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgecms 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... | |
 | Edwin Gordon Lawrence - 1912 - 280 pages
...attending the impeachment of Warren Hastings, is a marvellous piece of wordpicturing. It is as follows : There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye,...than that which was then exhibited at Westminster, bjit, perhaps, there was never a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly-cultivated, a reflecting,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1911 - 346 pages
...meantime, the preparations for the trial had proceeded rapidly; and on the 13th 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... | |
 | John Walter Ross - 1915 - 288 pages
...service of the individual and society this man is the truly educated man — Bishop John H. Vincent 2. 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... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1917 - 536 pages
...Scene at the Trial of Warren Hastings (From essay on Warren Hastings) On the 13th 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... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 986 pages
...Scene at the Trial of Warren Hastings (From essay on Warren Hastings) On the 13th 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... | |
 | CHARLES H. SYLVESTER CHROUGH BOOKLAND - 1922 - 530 pages
...manager. The preparations for the trial 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... | |
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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... 
