Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volúmenes5-6A.C. Armstrong, 1860 |
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... soon established a high character for ability and resolution . The treason which at a later period was fatal to Surajah Dowlah was already in progress ; and Hastings was admitted to the deliberations of the conspirators . But the time ...
... soon established a high character for ability and resolution . The treason which at a later period was fatal to Surajah Dowlah was already in progress ; and Hastings was admitted to the deliberations of the conspirators . But the time ...
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... Soon after Hastings reached Calcutta , he received a letter ad . dressed by the Court of Directors , not to the council generally , but to himself in particular . He was - rected to remove Mahommed Reza Kahn , to arrest him together ...
... Soon after Hastings reached Calcutta , he received a letter ad . dressed by the Court of Directors , not to the council generally , but to himself in particular . He was - rected to remove Mahommed Reza Kahn , to arrest him together ...
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... soon came to an understanding ; and the provinces which had been torn from the Mo- gul were made over to the government of Oude for about half a million sterling . But there was another matter still more important to be settled by the ...
... soon came to an understanding ; and the provinces which had been torn from the Mo- gul were made over to the government of Oude for about half a million sterling . But there was another matter still more important to be settled by the ...
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... soon struck . Each of the negotiators had what the other wanted . Has ings was in need of funds to carry on the government of Bengal , and to send remittances to London ; and Sujah Dowlah had an ample revenue . Sujah Dowlah was bent on ...
... soon struck . Each of the negotiators had what the other wanted . Has ings was in need of funds to carry on the government of Bengal , and to send remittances to London ; and Sujah Dowlah had an ample revenue . Sujah Dowlah was bent on ...
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... soon made them the most conspicuous among the new powers which were generated by the corruption of the decaying monarchy . At first they were only robbers . They soon rose to the dignity of conquerors . Half the provinces of the empire ...
... soon made them the most conspicuous among the new powers which were generated by the corruption of the decaying monarchy . At first they were only robbers . They soon rose to the dignity of conquerors . Half the provinces of the empire ...
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Página 125 - 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. There were seated round the Queen the fairhaired young daughters of the House of Brunswick. There the Ambassadors of great Kings and Common
Página 124 - 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 Strafford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party inflamed
Página 126 - 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
Página 420 - to the consummate painter of life and manners. It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule without abusing it, who, without inflicting a wound, effected a great social reform, and who reconciled wit and virtue, after a long and disastrous separation, during which wit had been led astray by profligacy,
Página 19 - movements languid. During many ages he has been trampled upon by men of bolder and more hardy breeds. Courage, independence, veracity, are qualities to which his constitution and his situation are equally unfavourable. His mind bears a singular analogy to his body. It is weak even to helplessness for purposes of manly resistance
Página 126 - There were the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticized, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies whose lips, more persuasive than those of Fox himself, had carried the Westminster election against palace and treasury, shone around
Página 112 - had just as lively an idea of the insurrection at Benares as of Lord George Gordon's riots, and of the execution of Nuncomar as of the execution of Dr. Dodd. Oppression in Bengal was to him the same thing as oppression in the streets of London. He saw that Hastings had been guilty
Página 325 - Addison's classical attainments. In one department of learning, indeed, his proficiency was such as it is hardly possible to overrate. His knowledge of the Latin poets, from Lucretius and Catullus down to Claudian and Prudentius, was singularly exact and profound. He understood them thoroughly, entered into their spirit, and had the finest and most discriminating
Página 374 - or Cervantes. But what shall we say of Addison's humour, of his sense of the ludicrous, of his power of awakening that sense in others, and of drawing mirth from incidents which occur every day, and from little peculiarities of temper and manner, such as may be found in every man ? We feel the charm
Página 90 - is to desire that his officers, when they shall come, may have free access to the prisoners, and be permitted to do with them as they shall see proper." While these barbarities were perpetrated at Lucknow, the Princesses were still under duress at Fyzabad. Food was allowed to enter their apartments only in