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Common terms and phrasesAberdaron acquirements affidavits alleged animadverted answer appeared attention Bagillt beautiful Begum Charge Burke Carnarvon Cawn character Chunar circum circumstances conduct Court crimes cumstances defence degree dleton Dowlah duty eloquence English equal evidence facts father favour feelings friends Fyzabad gave genius gentleman give grammar Greek guilt Hastings heard heart Hebrew Hebrew Bible honour House of Commons human India instance insurrection Jaghires ject justice knew labour language Latin Liverpool Lord Lordships Lucknow Major Davy manner memory Middleton mind Nabob nature never object observed occasion Oude particular party person plunder PORTLAND PLACE present prisoner proceeded proof prove purpose pursuit racter rebellion received resumption Richard Brinsley RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN Sheridan shew singular Sir Elijah Impey Sir John Macpherson situation speech stances suffered talents testimony thought tion took treasures Treffos truth violence Warren Hastings Westminster Hall wish words Popular passagesPage 23 - He threw his blood-stained sword in thunder down, And with a withering look The war-denouncing trumpet took, And blew a blast so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe. Page 40 - No wars have ravaged these lands and depopulated these villages — no civil discords have been felt — no disputed succession — no religious rage — no merciless enemy — no affliction of Providence, which, while it scourged for the moment, cut off the sources of resuscitation — no voracious and poisoning monsters — no, all this has been accomplished by the friendship, generosity, and kindness of the English nation. Page 41 - Begums in their secluded Zenana? or that they could inspire this enthusiasm and this despair into the breasts of a people who felt no grievance, and had suffered no torture? What motive, then, could have such influence in their bosoms? What motive? That which nature, the common parent, plants in the bosom of man, and which, though it may be less active in the Indian... Page 39 - What merciless enemy has thus spread the horrors of fire and sword — what severe visitation of providence has dried up the fountain, and taken from the face of the earth every vestige of verdure? — Or rather, what monsters have stalked over the country, tainting and poisoning, with pestiferous breath, what the voracious appetite could not devour? Page 57 - Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught; leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge To prick and sting her. Page 39 - Dowla, that man, who, with a savage heart, had still great lines of character, and who, with all his ferocity in war, had still, with a cultivating... Page xxxvi - ... glory upon the country. Of all species of rhetoric, of every kind of eloquence that has been witnessed, or recorded, either in ancient or modern times ; whatever the acuteness of the bar, the dignity of the senate, the solidity of the judgment-seat, and the sacred morality of the pulpit have hitherto furnished, nothing has surpassed, nothing has equalled what we have this day heard in Westminster-hall. Page 40 - When we hear the description of the paroxysm, fever, and delirium, into which despair had thrown the natives, when on the banks of the polluted Ganges, panting for death, they tore more widely open the lips of their gaping: 17 wounds, to accelerate their dissolution ; and, while their blood was issuing, presented their ghastly eyes to heaven, breathing their last and fervent prayer that the dry earth might not be suffered to drink their blood, but that it might rise... Page 41 - That which nature, the common parent, plants in the bosom of man; and which, though it may be less active in the Indian than in the Englishman, is still congenial with, and makes a part of his being. Page 41 - That principle, which tells him, that resistance to power usurped is not merely a duty which he owes to himself and to his... Bibliographic information
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