Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, Band 3A.C. Armstrong & son, 1860 |
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... manner which has left a lasting stain on the fame of Hastings and of England . The people of Central Asia had always been to the inhabitants of India what the warriors of the German forests were to the subjects of the decaying monarchy ...
... manner which has left a lasting stain on the fame of Hastings and of England . The people of Central Asia had always been to the inhabitants of India what the warriors of the German forests were to the subjects of the decaying monarchy ...
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... manner , their new authority over the subordinate presidencies ; threw all the affairs of Bom- bay into confusion ; and interfered , with an incredible union of rashness and feebleness , in the intestine dis- putes of the Mahratta ...
... manner , their new authority over the subordinate presidencies ; threw all the affairs of Bom- bay into confusion ; and interfered , with an incredible union of rashness and feebleness , in the intestine dis- putes of the Mahratta ...
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... manner the Mahratta states , though really independent of each other , pretended to be members of one empire . They all acknowledged , by words and ceremonies , the su- premacy of the heir of Sevajee , a roi fainéant who chewed bang ...
... manner the Mahratta states , though really independent of each other , pretended to be members of one empire . They all acknowledged , by words and ceremonies , the su- premacy of the heir of Sevajee , a roi fainéant who chewed bang ...
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... manner in which the Regulating Act had been framed put it in the power of the Chief Justice to throw a great country into the most dreadful confusion . He was determined to use his power to the utmost , unless he was paid to be still ...
... manner in which the Regulating Act had been framed put it in the power of the Chief Justice to throw a great country into the most dreadful confusion . He was determined to use his power to the utmost , unless he was paid to be still ...
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... manner , that sanction which in a regular manner he could not give , to the crimes of those who had recently hired him ; and in order that a confused mass of testi- mony which he did not sift , which he did not even read , might acquire ...
... manner , that sanction which in a regular manner he could not give , to the crimes of those who had recently hired him ; and in order that a confused mass of testi- mony which he did not sift , which he did not even read , might acquire ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 130 - ... had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There, too, was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia, whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay.
Seite 129 - The gray old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator. There were gathered together, from all parts of a great, free, enlightened, and prosperous empire, grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every science and of every art.
Seite 133 - The energy and pathos of the great orator extorted expressions of unwonted admiration from the stern and - hostile Chancellor, and, for a moment, seemed to pierce even the resolute heart of the defendant. The ladies in the galleries, unaccustomed to such displays of eloquence, excited by the solemnity of the occasion, and perhaps not unwilling to display their taste and sensibility, were in a state of uncontrollable emotion. Handkerchiefs were pulled out; smelling bottles were handed round; hysterical...
Seite 134 - I impeach him in the name of the Commons House of Parliament, whose trust he has betrayed. I impeach him in the name of the English Nation, whose ancient honor he has sullied.
Seite 173 - You are worse," said one of his medical attendants, "than you should be from the degree of fever which you have. Is your mind at ease ? " "No, it is not," were the last recorded words of Oliver Goldsmith.
Seite 128 - 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 to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind.
Seite 8 - This purpose, formed in infancy and poverty, grew stronger as his intellect expanded and as his fortune rose. He pursued his plan with that calm but indomitable force of will which was the most striking peculiarity of his character. When, under a tropical sun, he ruled fifty millions of Asiatics, his hopes, amidst all the cares of war, finance, and legislation, still pointed to Daylesford.
Seite 129 - ... where Charles had confronted the High Court of Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his fame. Neither military nor civil pomp was wanting. The avenues were lined with grenadiers. The streets were kept clear by cavalry. The peers, robed in gold and ermine, were marshalled by the heralds under Garter King-at-Arms. The judges, in their vestments of state, attended to give advice on points of law.
Seite 174 - The evils produced by his wickedness were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown ; and, in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America...
Seite 116 - Street. All India was present to the eye of his mind, from the halls where suitors laid gold and perfumes at the feet of sovereigns to the wild moor where the...