 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 438 pages
...and energy of Clive. Vansittart, with fair intentions, was a feeble and inefficient ruler. The master caste, as was natural, broke loose from all restraint;...most frightful of all spectacles, the strength of civilisation without its mercy. To all other despotism there is a check: imperfect, indeed, and liable... | |
 | American periodicals - 1926 - 600 pages
...abused by being permitted to extend the area of conflict, or to exhibit what Macaulay has described as 'the most frightful of all spectacles, the strength of civilization without its mercy.' It is equally the duty of the British people to face the new situation in a progressive spirit, and... | |
 | 1850 - 814 pages
...improved civil polity and of a purer form of religion. Then is seen what Mr. Macaulay has described as ' the most frightful of all spectacles — the strength of civilization without its mercy.' VOL. XXVII. L Shameless rapacity, unsparing extortion, the meanest perfidy, combined with the most... | |
 | Sir Edward Robert Sullivan - History - 1852 - 444 pages
...usual accompaniments of an utterly lawless life; and they were instances of what Macaulay terms " that most frightful of all spectacles, the strength of civilization without its mercy." The atrocities related of some of them would be incredible, were they not attested by eye-witnesses.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1853 - 596 pages
...and energy of Clive. Vansittart, with fair intentions, was a feeble and inefficient ruler. The master caste, as was natural, broke loose from all restraint ; and then was seen what we believe to )io the most frightful of all spectacles, the strength of civilisation without its mercy. To all other... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1078 pages
...and energy of Clive. Vansittart, with fair intentions, was a feeble and inefficient ruler. The master caste, as was natural, broke loose from all restraint;...most frightful of all spectacles, the strength of civilisation without its mercy. To all other despotism there is a check, imperfect indeed, and liable... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1088 pages
...intentions, was a feeble and inefficient ruler. The master caste, as was natural, broke loose from i all restraint ; and then was seen what we believe...most frightful of all spectacles, the strength of civilisation without its mercy. To all other despotism there is a check, imperfect indeed, and liable... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 758 pages
...and energy of Clive. Vansittart, with fair intentions, was a feeble and inefficient ruler. The master caste, as was natural, broke loose from all restraint;...most frightful of all spectacles, the strength of civilisation without its mercy. To all other despotism there is a check, imperfect indeed, and liable... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 pages
...and energy of Clive. Vansittart, with fair intentions, was a feeble and inefficient ruler. The master caste, as was natural, broke loose from all restraint...most frightful of all spectacles, the strength of civilisation without its mercy. To all other despotism there is a check, imperfect indeed, and liable... | |
 | American periodicals - 1867 - 894 pages
...and energy of Clive. Vansitta>t, with fair intentions, was a feeble and efficient ruler. The master caste, as was natural, broke loose from all restraint...most frightful of all spectacles, the strength of civilisation without its merry. To all other despotism there is a check ; imperfect, indeed, and liable... | |
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... helpless, timid, accustomed to crouch under oppression. To keep the stronger race from preying on the weaker, was an undertaking which tasked to the utmost the talents and energy of Clive. Vansittart, with fair intentions, was a feeble and inefficient... 
