Essay on Warren HastingsMacmillan Company, 1911 |
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30. oldal
... received a letter addressed by 5 the Court of Directors , not to the council generally , but to himself in particular . He was directed to re- move Mahommed Reza Khan , to arrest him , together with all his family and all his partisans ...
... received a letter addressed by 5 the Court of Directors , not to the council generally , but to himself in particular . He was directed to re- move Mahommed Reza Khan , to arrest him , together with all his family and all his partisans ...
32. oldal
... received no intimation of these measures till the prisoners were on their road to Calcutta . The inquiry into the conduct of the minister was postponed on different pretences . He was detained in 10 an easy confinement during many ...
... received no intimation of these measures till the prisoners were on their road to Calcutta . The inquiry into the conduct of the minister was postponed on different pretences . He was detained in 10 an easy confinement during many ...
35. oldal
... neighboring powers , and send more money ; this is in truth the sum of almost all the instructions that Hastings ever received from home . Now these 25 99 instructions , being interpreted , mean simply , " Be ON WARREN HASTINGS 335.
... neighboring powers , and send more money ; this is in truth the sum of almost all the instructions that Hastings ever received from home . Now these 25 99 instructions , being interpreted , mean simply , " Be ON WARREN HASTINGS 335.
58. oldal
... receiving bribes for suffering of- 5 fenders to escape . In particular , it was alleged that Mahommed Reza Khan had been dismissed with impunity , in consideration of a great sum paid to the Governor - General . Francis read the paper ...
... receiving bribes for suffering of- 5 fenders to escape . In particular , it was alleged that Mahommed Reza Khan had been dismissed with impunity , in consideration of a great sum paid to the Governor - General . Francis read the paper ...
59. oldal
... received a great sum for appointing Rajah Goordas treasurer of the Nabob's household , and for committing the care of his Highness's person to the 10 ° Munny Begum . He put in a letter purporting to bear the seal of the Munny Begum ...
... received a great sum for appointing Rajah Goordas treasurer of the Nabob's household , and for committing the care of his Highness's person to the 10 ° Munny Begum . He put in a letter purporting to bear the seal of the Munny Begum ...
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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.