Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, المجلد 5Hurd & Houghton, 1860 |
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... give , in a way necessarily hasty and imperfect , our own view of the life and char- acter of Mr. Hastings . Our feeling towards him is not exactly that of the House of Commons which impeached him in 1787 ; neither is it that of the ...
... give , in a way necessarily hasty and imperfect , our own view of the life and char- acter of Mr. Hastings . Our feeling towards him is not exactly that of the House of Commons which impeached him in 1787 ; neither is it that of the ...
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... give him the regular features and smooth blooming cheeks of the curl - pated minions of James the First . He was content that his face should go forth marked with all the blemishes which had been put on it by time , by war , by ...
... give him the regular features and smooth blooming cheeks of the curl - pated minions of James the First . He was content that his face should go forth marked with all the blemishes which had been put on it by time , by war , by ...
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... give him a liberal education . The boy went up to London , and was sent to a school at Newington , where he was well taught but ill fed . He always attributed the sinallness of his stature to the hard and scanty fare of this semi- nary ...
... give him a liberal education . The boy went up to London , and was sent to a school at Newington , where he was well taught but ill fed . He always attributed the sinallness of his stature to the hard and scanty fare of this semi- nary ...
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... give balls in St. James's Square . Of the conduct of Hastings at this time little is known ; but the little that is known , and the circumstance that little is known , must be considered as honourable to him . He could not protect the ...
... give balls in St. James's Square . Of the conduct of Hastings at this time little is known ; but the little that is known , and the circumstance that little is known , must be considered as honourable to him . He could not protect the ...
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... in England . Of his life at this time very little is known . But it has been asserted , gives cray and state's it back with the other . nasty and is highly probable , that liberal studies and the WARREN HASTINGS . 11.
... in England . Of his life at this time very little is known . But it has been asserted , gives cray and state's it back with the other . nasty and is highly probable , that liberal studies and the WARREN HASTINGS . 11.
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الصفحة 122 - 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 sobs and screams were heard; and Mrs. Sheridan was carried out in a fit. At length the orator concluded. Raising...
الصفحة 117 - 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.
الصفحة 104 - ... 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 262 - 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 138 - With all his faults — and they were neither few nor small — only one cemetery was worthy to contain his remains. In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall, the dust of the illustrious accused should have mingled with the dust of the illustrious accusers.
الصفحة 300 - It may, by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition: As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour.
الصفحة 373 - The Tories carry it among the new members six to one. * Mr. Addison's election has passed easy and undisputed; and I believe if he had a mind to be king, he would hardly be refused.
الصفحة 215 - 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 67 - ... of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathingplaces along the Ganges, were worn every day by the footsteps of an innumerable multitude of worshippers. The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindoos from every province where the Brahminical faith was known. Hundreds of devotees came thither every month to die — for it was believed that a peculiarly happy fate awaited the man who should pass from the sacred city into the sacred river. Nor was superstition the only motive...