Essay on Warren HastingsMacmillan Company, 1911 |
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xxxiii. oldal
... authority : — The Hindus , made up of : - - Non - Aryans ( the Aborigines ) . Aryans ( from Aryan plateau ) . - Scythians ( Huns , Tartars ) . ( From Western Asia . Possibly non - Aryans , though probably Aryans . ) These three had ...
... authority : — The Hindus , made up of : - - Non - Aryans ( the Aborigines ) . Aryans ( from Aryan plateau ) . - Scythians ( Huns , Tartars ) . ( From Western Asia . Possibly non - Aryans , though probably Aryans . ) These three had ...
xlv. oldal
... authority . He found India a collection of petty Hindu and Mohammedan states ; he made it almost a united empire . The noble red stone fort at Agra remains to illustrate his idea of architecture . Tennyson in Akbar's Dream treats of the ...
... authority . He found India a collection of petty Hindu and Mohammedan states ; he made it almost a united empire . The noble red stone fort at Agra remains to illustrate his idea of architecture . Tennyson in Akbar's Dream treats of the ...
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... authority , and public care written in all its princely lines . If men truly great knew their own interest , it is thus that they would wish their minds to be portrayed . Warren Hastings sprang from an ancient and illus- trious race ...
... authority , and public care written in all its princely lines . If men truly great knew their own interest , it is thus that they would wish their minds to be portrayed . Warren Hastings sprang from an ancient and illus- trious race ...
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... may compare small things with great , such as the city of London bears to Westminster . Moorshedabad was the abode of the prince who , by 25 an authority ostensibly derived from the Mogul , but really ON WARREN HASTINGS.
... may compare small things with great , such as the city of London bears to Westminster . Moorshedabad was the abode of the prince who , by 25 an authority ostensibly derived from the Mogul , but really ON WARREN HASTINGS.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. an authority ostensibly derived from the Mogul , but really independent , ruled the three great provinces of Bengal , Orissa , and Bahar . At Moorshedabad were the court , the harem , and the ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. an authority ostensibly derived from the Mogul , but really independent , ruled the three great provinces of Bengal , Orissa , and Bahar . At Moorshedabad were the court , the harem , and the ...
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ESSAY ON WARREN HASTINGS Thomas Babington Macaulay Bar Macaulay,Allan 1876- Abbott Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2016 |
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174. oldal - 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. There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons.
179. oldal - House of Parliament, whose trust he has betrayed. I impeach him in the name of the English nation, whose ancient honor he has sullied. I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose rights he has trodden under foot, and whose country he has turned into a desert. Lastly, in the name of human nature itself, in the name of both sexes, in the name of every age, in the name of every rank, I impeach the common enemy and oppressor of all !" When the deep murmur of various emotions had subsided,...
179. oldal - I impeach Warren Hastings of high crimes and misdemeanors. 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.
175. oldal - He had ruled an extensive and populous country, had made laws and treaties, had sent forth armies, had set up and pulled down princes. And in his high place he had so borne himself, that all had feared him, that most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory, except virtue. He looked like a great man, and not like a bad man.
172. oldal - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded 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...
173. oldal - There the ambassadors of great kings and commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no 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 cause of Sicily against Verres ; and when before a senate, which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa.
172. oldal - ... 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 Kingat-arms.
176. oldal - Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the English Hyperides. There was Burke, ignorant, indeed, or negligent of the art of adapting his reasonings and his style to the capacity and taste of his hearers, but in amplitude of comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern.
176. oldal - ... commanding, copious, and sonorous eloquence was wanting to that great muster of various talents. Age and blindness had unfitted Lord North for the duties of a public prosecutor; and his friends were left without the help of his excellent sense, his tact, and his urbanity.
154. oldal - ... descending the steps to the riverside, the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and the silver maces, the elephants with their canopies of state, the gorgeous palanquin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady, all these things were to him as the objects amidst which his own life had been passed, as the objects which lay on the road between Beaconsfield and St.