Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, 3권A.C. Armstrong & son, 1860 |
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... 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 House of Com- mons which uncovered and stood up to receive him in 1813. He had great qualities , and ...
... 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 House of Com- mons which uncovered and stood up to receive him in 1813. He had great qualities , and ...
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... Hastings sprang from an ancient and illus- trious race . It has been affirmed that his pedigree can be traced back to the great Danish sea - king , whose sails were long the terror of both coasts of the British Chan- nel , and who ...
... Hastings sprang from an ancient and illus- trious race . It has been affirmed that his pedigree can be traced back to the great Danish sea - king , whose sails were long the terror of both coasts of the British Chan- nel , and who ...
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... Hastings of that time was a zealous cavalier . He raised money on his lands , sent his plate to the mint at Oxford , joined the royal army , and , after spending half his property in the cause of King Charles , was glad to ransom ...
... Hastings of that time was a zealous cavalier . He raised money on his lands , sent his plate to the mint at Oxford , joined the royal army , and , after spending half his property in the cause of King Charles , was glad to ransom ...
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... Hastings formed friendship which neither the lapse of time , nor a wide dissimilarity of opinions and pursuits , could wholly dissolve . It does not appear that they ever met after they had grown to manhood . But forty years later ...
... Hastings formed friendship which neither the lapse of time , nor a wide dissimilarity of opinions and pursuits , could wholly dissolve . It does not appear that they ever met after they had grown to manhood . But forty years later ...
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... Hastings had another associate at Westminster of whom we shall have occasion to make frequent mention , Elijah Impey . We know little about their school days . But , we think , we may safely venture to guess that , whenever Hastings ...
... Hastings had another associate at Westminster of whom we shall have occasion to make frequent mention , Elijah Impey . We know little about their school days . But , we think , we may safely venture to guess that , whenever Hastings ...
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130 페이지 - ... 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.
129 페이지 - 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.
133 페이지 - The energy and pathos of the great orator extorted expressions of unwonted admiration from the stern and - hostile 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...
134 페이지 - 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.
173 페이지 - You are worse," said one of his medical attendants, "than you should be from the degree of fever which you have. Is your mind at ease ? " "No, it is not," were the last recorded words of Oliver Goldsmith.
128 페이지 - There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind.
8 페이지 - This purpose, formed in infancy and poverty, grew stronger as his intellect expanded and as his fortune rose. He pursued his plan with that calm but indomitable 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 Daylesford.
129 페이지 - ... where Charles had confronted the High Court of Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his 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 King-at-Arms. The judges, in their vestments of state, attended to give advice on points of law.
174 페이지 - The evils produced by his wickedness were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown ; and, in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America...
116 페이지 - Street. All India was present to the eye of his mind, from the halls where suitors laid gold and perfumes at the feet of sovereigns to the wild moor where the...