Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, المجلد 3Hurd and Houghton, 1873 |
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... - ley . Warren , young , intrepid , and excited probably by the example of the Commander of the Forces who , having like himself been a mercantile agent of the Company , had been turned by public calamities into a 8 WARREN HASTINGS .
... - ley . Warren , young , intrepid , and excited probably by the example of the Commander of the Forces who , having like himself been a mercantile agent of the Company , had been turned by public calamities into a 8 WARREN HASTINGS .
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... Bengal , and to send remittances to London ; and Sujah Dowlah had an ample revenue . Sujah Dowlah was bent on subjugating the Rohillas ; and Hastings had at his disposal the only force by which the 30 WARREN HASTINGS .
... Bengal , and to send remittances to London ; and Sujah Dowlah had an ample revenue . Sujah Dowlah was bent on subjugating the Rohillas ; and Hastings had at his disposal the only force by which the 30 WARREN HASTINGS .
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. had at his disposal the only force by which the Rohillas could be subjugated . It was agreed that an English army should be lent to the Nabob Vizier , and that , for the loan , he should pay four ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. had at his disposal the only force by which the Rohillas could be subjugated . It was agreed that an English army should be lent to the Nabob Vizier , and that , for the loan , he should pay four ...
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... forces . The Rohillas expostulated , entreated , offered a large ransom , but in vain . They then resolved to defend themselves to the last . A bloody battle was fought . " The enemy , " says Col- onel Champion , " gave proof of a good ...
... forces . The Rohillas expostulated , entreated , offered a large ransom , but in vain . They then resolved to defend themselves to the last . A bloody battle was fought . " The enemy , " says Col- onel Champion , " gave proof of a good ...
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الصفحة 126 - There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a Senate which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa.
الصفحة 112 - ... prays with his face to Mecca, the drums, and banners, and gaudy idols, the devotee swinging in the air, the graceful maiden with the pitcher on her head, descending the steps to the river-side, the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks...
الصفحة 418 - Campagna, and had restrained the avalanches of Mont Cenis. Of the Psalms, his favorite was that which represents the Ruler of all things under the endearing image of a shepherd, whose crook guides the flock safe, through gloomy and desolate glens, to meadows well watered and rich with herbage. On that goodness to which he ascribed all the happiness of his life, he relied in the hour of death with the love which casteth out fear. He died on the 17th of June, 1719. He had just entered on his forty-eighth...
الصفحة 268 - Steevens, and the polecat John Williams. It did not, however, occur to them to search the parish register of Lynn, in order that they might be able to twit a lady with having concealed her age. That truly chivalrous exploit was reserved for a bad writer of our own time, whose spite she had provoked by not furnishing him with materials for a worthless edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson, some sheets of which our readers have doubtless seen round parcels of better books.
الصفحة 313 - His son seems weaker in his understanding, and more gay in his temper ; but his gaiety is that of a foolish overgrown schoolboy, whose mirth consists in noise and disturbance. He disdains his father for his close attention to business and love of money, though he seems himself to have no talents, spirit, or generosity to make him superior to either. His chief delight appears to be in tormenting and ridiculing his sisters, who in return most cordially despise him.
الصفحة 384 - Spectator must be allowed to be both original and eminently happy. Every valuable essay in the series may be read with pleasure separately ; yet the five or six hundred essays form a whole, and a whole which has the interest of a novel. It must be remembered, too, that at that time no novel, giving a lively and powerful picture of the common life and manners of England, had appeared. Richardson was working as a compositor. Fielding was robbing birds
الصفحة 155 - Europe, which, though of little or no value, is still reprinted among his works ; a Life of Beau Nash, which is not reprinted, though it well deserves to be so ; a superficial and incorrect, but very readable, History of England, in a series of letters purporting to be addressed by a nobleman to his son; and some very lively and amusing Sketches of London Society, in a series of letters purporting to be addressed by a Chinese traveller to his friends.
الصفحة 223 - We hardly know any instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking, and so grotesque, as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other...
الصفحة 125 - 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 Commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could present.
الصفحة 49 - Dashwood's financial statement had been confused and absurd beyond belief, and had been received by the House with roars of laughter. He had sense enough to be conscious of his unfitness for the high situation which he held, and exclaimed in a comical fit of despair, "What shall I do? The boys will point at me in the street, and cry, 'There goes the worst Chancellor of the Exchequer that ever was.