The World's Famous Orations
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ISBN13: 9780217965620
Paperback|9780217965620
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SHERIDAN AT THE TRIAL OF WARREN HASTINGS1 (1788) Born In 1751, died to 1818; settled in London in 1773; Proprietor of Druiy Lane Theater In 1776; entered Parliament in 1780; Secretary of the Treasury in 1783; Treasurer of the Navy in 1806; left Parliament in 1812; author of Tho School for Scandal, 1777. Ip a stranger had at this time in 1782] gone into the kingdom of Oude, ignorant of what had happened since the death of Sujah Dowlah?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 hand preserved to his country the riches which it derived from benignant skies, and a prolific soil?if this stranger, ignorant of all that had happened in the short interval, and observing the wide and general devastation, and all the horrors of the scene?of plains unclothed and brown?of vegetation burnt up and extinguished?of villagesdepopulated and in ruin?of temples unroofed and perishing?of reservoirs broken down and dry?he would naturally inquire, What war had thus laid waste the fertile fields of this once beautiful and opulent country 1 What civil dissensions have happened thus to tear asunder, and separate the happy societies that once possessed those villages ? What religious rage had, with unholy violence, demolished those temples, and disturbed fervent, but unobtruding piety in the exercise f its duties? What merciless enemy had thus spread the horrors of fire and sword? What severe visitation of Providence had thus dried up the mountains, and taken from the face of the earth every vestige of green or rather, what monsters had crawled over the country, tainting and poisoning what the voracious appetite could not devour? To such questions, what must be the answer? No wars have ravaged these ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217965620 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217965628 |
| Weight | 0.46 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.31 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 134 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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