Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, 5-6. kötetA.C. Armstrong, 1860 |
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98. oldal
... language to the knowledge of European students owed much to his encouragement . It was under his protection that the Asiatic Society commenced its hon- ourable career . That distinguished body selected him to be its first president ...
... language to the knowledge of European students owed much to his encouragement . It was under his protection that the Asiatic Society commenced its hon- ourable career . That distinguished body selected him to be its first president ...
111. oldal
... language , neither r - s ligion nor manners in common , and from whom no re quital , no thanks , no applause could be expected . His knowledge of India was such as few , even of those Europeans who have passed many years in that country ...
... language , neither r - s ligion nor manners in common , and from whom no re quital , no thanks , no applause could be expected . His knowledge of India was such as few , even of those Europeans who have passed many years in that country ...
117. oldal
... language , the Minister gave his opinion on the case . He maintained that the Gov- ernor - General was justified in calling on the Rajah of Benares for pecuniary assistance , and in imposing a fine when that assistance vas ...
... language , the Minister gave his opinion on the case . He maintained that the Gov- ernor - General was justified in calling on the Rajah of Benares for pecuniary assistance , and in imposing a fine when that assistance vas ...
119. oldal
... language could afterwards vote that the later part of his administration furnished matter for no less than twenty articles of impeachment ? They first represented the conduct of Hastings in 1780 and 1781 as so highly meritorious that ...
... language could afterwards vote that the later part of his administration furnished matter for no less than twenty articles of impeachment ? They first represented the conduct of Hastings in 1780 and 1781 as so highly meritorious that ...
154. oldal
... language of Lord Keeper Coventry , " the de- praved nature of man , which of itself carrieth man to all other sin , abhorreth them . " But the offences of his youth were not characterized by any degree of turpi- tude . They excited ...
... language of Lord Keeper Coventry , " the de- praved nature of man , which of itself carrieth man to all other sin , abhorreth them . " But the offences of his youth were not characterized by any degree of turpi- tude . They excited ...
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Addison admiration appeared army Barère became Benares Bengal Burke Bute called cause character Chatham chief coalition colonies court crimes death defended Duke eloquence eminent enemies England English fame 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 House of Hanover 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 poet political Pope prince produced Prussian Queen Robespierre royal scarcely seemed sent Silesia slave soon spirit strong talents taste thing thought thousand tion took Tortola Tory truth Voltaire voted Whig whole writer young
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128. 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 murmnr of various emotions had subsided,...
124. oldal - ... 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.
374. oldal - Booth to his box, and gave him fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator.
125. oldal - ... 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. A person small and emaciated, yet deriving dignity from a carriage which, while it indicated deference to the court, indicated also habitual self-possession and self-respect, a high and intellectual...
128. oldal - 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.
124. 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.
123. oldal - Strafford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party inflamed with just resentment, the hall where Charles had confronted the High Court of Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his fame.
356. oldal - like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbor to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.
144. oldal - 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.
17. oldal - The physical organization of the Bengalee is feeble, even to effeminacy. He lives in a constant vapour bath. His pursuits are sedentary, his limbs delicate, his movements languid. During many ages he has been trampled upon by men of bolder and more hardy breeds.