 | 1808 - 546 pages
...be compared to the <wift directness of the arrowV as the duplicity of Mr. o 2 HASTINGS'?; HASTINGS'S ambition to the simple steadiness of genuine magnanimity....and even those contrasted by the littleness of his motive, which at once denoted both his baseness and his meanness ; and marked him for i\ traitor, and... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 pages
...obliquity of the serpent be compared to the direet path of the arrow, as the duplicity of Mr. Hastings'= ambition to the simple steadiness of genuine magnanimity. In his mind all is shuffling, ambiguous, dark, insidious, and little. Nothing simple, nothing unmixed ; all affected... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 pages
...obliquity of the serpent be compared to the direct path of the arrow, as the duplicity of Mr. Hastings's ambition to the simple steadiness of genuine magnanimity. In his mind all is shuffling, ambiguous, dark, insidious, and little. Nothing simple, nothing unmixed ; all affected... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1809 - 608 pages
...obliquy of the serpent be compared to the direct path of the arrow, as the duplicity of Mr. Hastings's ambition to the simple steadiness of genuine magnanimity....nothing unmixed ; all affected plainness, and actual dis* simulation. He was an heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities, with nothing great but his... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1810 - 612 pages
...obliquy of the serpent be compared to the direct path of the arrow, as the duplicity of Mr. Hastings's ambition to the simple steadiness of genuine magnanimity....all affected plainness, and actual dissimulation. He was an heterogeneous mass of contradictors qualities, with nothing great but his crimes, and those... | |
 | David Hume - 1811 - 506 pages
...of the serpent be compared to the " direct path of the arrow, as the duplicity of Mr. Hast1 " ings's ambition to the simple steadiness of genuine " magnanimity ; in his mind all was shuffling, ambigu" ous, dark, insidious, and little ; nothing simple, nothing "unmixed; all affected plainness... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1816 - 744 pages
...of the serpent be compared to the swift directness of the arrow, as the duplicity of Mr. Hastings's ambition to the simple steadiness of genuine magnanimity....insidious, and little: nothing simple, nothing unmixed : all-affected plainness, and actual dissimulation. A heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities... | |
 | 1816 - 692 pages
...as the duplicity of Mr. Hastings's ambition to the simple steadiness of genuine magnanimity. In bis mind all was shuffling, ambiguous, dark, insidious,...nothing unmixed: all affected plainness, and actual dissimulation—a heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities; with nothing great but his crimes;... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1816 - 428 pages
...by turns a Dionyy . Hastings's ambition to the simple steadiness of genuine magnanimity. In his^mind all was shuffling, ambiguous, dark, insidious, and...nothing unmixed: all affected plainness, and actual dissimulation;—a heterogeneous mass of consiris and a Scapin. As well might the writhin g obliquity... | |
 | 1817 - 630 pages
...of the serpent be compared to the swift directness of the arrow, as the duplicity of Mr. Hastings's ambition, to the simple steadiness of genuine magnanimity....qualities; with nothing great but his crimes ; and even these, contrasted by the littleness of his motives, which at once denoted both his baseness and his... | |
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Hasting's ambition to the simple steadiness of genuine magnanimity. In his mind all was shuffling, ambiguous, dark, insidious, and little : nothing simple, nothing unmixed : all affected plainness, and actual dissimulation ; — a heterogeneous mass of... 
