Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, المجلدات 5-6A.C. Armstrong, 1860 |
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الصفحة 53
... thought that his employer was in imminent danger of being turned out , branded with parliamentary censure , per- haps prosecuted . The opinion of the crown lawyers had already been taken respecting some parts of the Governor - General's ...
... thought that his employer was in imminent danger of being turned out , branded with parliamentary censure , per- haps prosecuted . The opinion of the crown lawyers had already been taken respecting some parts of the Governor - General's ...
الصفحة 54
... thought himself justified in producing the resignation with which he had been intrusted . The instrument was not in very accurate form ; but the Directors were too eager to be scrupulous . They accepted the resignation , fixed on Mr ...
... thought himself justified in producing the resignation with which he had been intrusted . The instrument was not in very accurate form ; but the Directors were too eager to be scrupulous . They accepted the resignation , fixed on Mr ...
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... thought more about his allowances , and less about his duties , than might have been expected from so emi- nent a member of so noble a profession . Still he was perhaps the ablest officer that was then to be found in the British army ...
... thought more about his allowances , and less about his duties , than might have been expected from so emi- nent a member of so noble a profession . Still he was perhaps the ablest officer that was then to be found in the British army ...
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... The plain truth is that Hastings had committed some great crimes , and that the thought of those crimes made the blood of Burke boil in his veins . For Burke was a man in whom compassion for suffering , and hatred of 110 WARREN HASTINGS .
... The plain truth is that Hastings had committed some great crimes , and that the thought of those crimes made the blood of Burke boil in his veins . For Burke was a man in whom compassion for suffering , and hatred of 110 WARREN HASTINGS .
الصفحة 115
... thought fit , be heard in his can defence at the bar of the Commons . Here again Hastings was pursued by the same fa- tality which had attended him ever since the day when he set foot on English ground . It seemed to be de- creed that ...
... thought fit , be heard in his can defence at the bar of the Commons . Here again Hastings was pursued by the same fa- tality which had attended him ever since the day when he set foot on English ground . It seemed to be de- creed that ...
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Addison admiration appeared army Barère became Benares Bengal Burke Bute called cause character chief coalition colonies court crimes death defended Duke eloquence eminent enemies England English favour favourite feeling France Frances Burney Frederic French friends genius George Grenville Girondists Governor-General Grenville hand Hastings Hippolyte Carnot honour House of Bourbon House of Commons human hundred India Jacobin Johnson justice King labour language less letters liberty literary live London Lord Lord Rockingham Madame D'Arblay Major Moody master means ment mind minister Miss Burney nation nature never Nuncomar opinion Parliament party passed person Pitt Pitt's poet political Pope prince produced Prussian Queen Revolutionary Tribunal Robespierre royal scarcely seemed sent Silesia slave soon spirit statesman strong talents taste thing thought thousand tion took Tortola Tory truth Voltaire vote Whig whole writer young
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الصفحة 125 - 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. There were seated round the Queen the fairhaired young daughters of the House of Brunswick. There the Ambassadors of great Kings and Common
الصفحة 124 - with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of Strafford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party inflamed
الصفحة 126 - other country In the world could present. There Siddons, in the prime of her majestic beauty, looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitations of the stage. There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the
الصفحة 420 - to the consummate painter of life and manners. It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule without abusing it, who, without inflicting a wound, effected a great social reform, and who reconciled wit and virtue, after a long and disastrous separation, during which wit had been led astray by profligacy,
الصفحة 19 - movements languid. During many ages he has been trampled upon by men of bolder and more hardy breeds. Courage, independence, veracity, are qualities to which his constitution and his situation are equally unfavourable. His mind bears a singular analogy to his body. It is weak even to helplessness for purposes of manly resistance
الصفحة 126 - There were the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticized, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies whose lips, more persuasive than those of Fox himself, had carried the Westminster election against palace and treasury, shone around
الصفحة 112 - had just as lively an idea of the insurrection at Benares as of Lord George Gordon's riots, and of the execution of Nuncomar as of the execution of Dr. Dodd. Oppression in Bengal was to him the same thing as oppression in the streets of London. He saw that Hastings had been guilty
الصفحة 325 - Addison's classical attainments. In one department of learning, indeed, his proficiency was such as it is hardly possible to overrate. His knowledge of the Latin poets, from Lucretius and Catullus down to Claudian and Prudentius, was singularly exact and profound. He understood them thoroughly, entered into their spirit, and had the finest and most discriminating
الصفحة 374 - or Cervantes. But what shall we say of Addison's humour, of his sense of the ludicrous, of his power of awakening that sense in others, and of drawing mirth from incidents which occur every day, and from little peculiarities of temper and manner, such as may be found in every man ? We feel the charm
الصفحة 90 - is to desire that his officers, when they shall come, may have free access to the prisoners, and be permitted to do with them as they shall see proper." While these barbarities were perpetrated at Lucknow, the Princesses were still under duress at Fyzabad. Food was allowed to enter their apartments only in