 | Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 398 páginas
...frequented with most pleasure and assiduity was that of Lord North.1 After the loss of power and of sight,2 he was still happy in himself and his friends ; and...esteem could no longer be suspected of any interested motive.3 Before my departure from England, I was present at the august spectacle of Mr. Hastings's... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1901 - 748 páginas
...thought it an event worthy of record in his Memoirs. " Before my departure from England," he says, " I was present at the august spectacle of Mr. Hastings's...the Governor of India ; but Mr. Sheridan's eloquence demanded my applause ; nor could I hear without emotion the personal compliment which he paid me in... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1902 - 424 páginas
...He says : " Before my departure from England I was present at the august spectacle of Mr. Hastings' trial in Westminster Hall. It is not my province to...the Governor of India, but Mr. Sheridan's eloquence demanded my applause ; nor could I hear without emotion the personal compliment that he paid me in... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1902 - 432 páginas
...could exceed this ! " Gibbon, delighted with this compliment, spoke of it in his memoirs. He says : " Before my departure from England I was present at the august spectacle of Mr. Hastings' trial in Westminster Hall. It is not my province to absolve or condemn the Governor of India,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1903 - 326 páginas
...followers." I have seen Sheridan in company with the famous Pamela, f She was lovely—quite radiant with from England, I was present at the august spectacle...the Governor of India ; but Mr. Sheridan's eloquence demanded my applause; nor could I hear without emotion the personal compliment which he paid me in... | |
 | Reginald Lucas - 1913 - 404 páginas
...in London which I frequented with most pleasure and assiduity was that of Lord North. After the loss of power and of sight, he was still happy in himself...no longer be suspected of any interested motive.' Speaking again of Necker, who was in retreat in 1790, he says : ' How different from the careless cheerfulness... | |
 | Reginald Lucas - 1913 - 404 páginas
...in London which I frequented with most pleasure and assiduity was that of Lord North. After the loss of power and of sight, he was still happy in himself...no longer be suspected of any interested motive.' Speaking again of Necker, who was in retreat in 1790, he says : ' How different from the careless cheerfulness... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1913 - 678 páginas
...England," he says, "I was present at the august upectacle of Mr. Hastings's trial in Westminster I Tail. It is not my province to absolve or condemn the Governor of India ; but Mr. Sheridan's eloquence demanded my applause ; nor could I hear without emotion the personal compliment which he paid me in... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1916 - 1006 páginas
...London " which I frequented with most pleasure and assiduity was that " of Lord North. After the loss of power and of sight, he was " still happy in himself...at the august spectacle of Mr. Hastings's trial in West" minster Hall. It is not my province to absolve or condemn the " Governor of India ; but Mr. Sheridan's... | |
 | David Womersley - 2002 - 472 páginas
...London which I frequented with the most pleasure and assiduity was that of Lord North: after the loss of power and of sight, he was still happy in himself and his friends, and my public tribute of graritude and esteem could no longer be suspected of any interested motive. Before my departure from... | |
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Before my departure from England, I was present at the august spectacle of Mr. Hastings's trial in Westminster Hall. It is not my province to absolve or Condemn the governor of India ; but Mr. Sheridan's eloquence demanded my applause ; nor could "I hear... 
