| Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 páginas
...meantime, the preparations for the trial had proceeded rapidly ; and, on the 13th of February, 1788, the sittings of the court commenced. There have been...than that which was then exhibited at Westminster ; 2 but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly-cultivated, a reflecting,... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1869 - 498 páginas
...sittings of the Court commenced. There have been spectacles more dazzliug to the eye, more gorgeous wlth jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was thon exlùbited at Westminster; but perhaps there never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 564 páginas
...returned from India, and had just been placed on his trial : ' On the thirteenth of February, 1788, the sittings of the Court commenced. There have been...a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. All the various kinds of interest which belong to the near and to the distant, to the present... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 732 páginas
...meantime, the preparations for the trial had proceeded rapidly; and on the thirteenth of February, 1788, the sittings of the Court commenced. There have been...a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. All the various kinds of interest which belong to the near and to the distant, to the present... | |
| Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 páginas
...India, and had just been placed on his trial : ' On the thirteenth of February. 1788, the sittiugs of the Court commenced. There have been spectacles...a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. All the various kinds of interest which Iwloug to the near and to the distant, to the present... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 496 páginas
...Pebruary 1788, thé sittings of thé Court commenced. There hâve been spectacles more dazzling to 1he eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold,...a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated,a reflecting, an Imaginative mind. Ail thé various kinds of interests which belong to thé... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 572 páginas
...returned from India, and had just been placed on his trial: ' On the thirteenth of February, 1788, the sittings of the Court commenced. There have been...attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then 4-xliibited at Westminster ; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 514 páginas
...de Devonshire 1. 1. On the thirteenth of February 1788, the sittings of the Court commencee!. Thére have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye. more...attractive to grown-up children, than that -which was thén exhibited at Westminster; but perbaps thére never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike... | |
| Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 páginas
...mean time, the preparations for the trial had proceeded rapidly ; and on the I3th of February, 1788, the sittings of the Court commenced. There have been...spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewelry and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 728 páginas
...was urged on the other side with great force, particularly by Mr. Windham, that impartiality, though the first duty of a judge, had never been reckoned...a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. All the various kinds of interest which belong to the near and to the distant, to the present... | |
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