With Cicero's account of the depredations of the provincial governors, cf. Sheridan's celebrated description in his Speech in Summing up the Evidence on the Second Charge against Warren Hastings: “Should a stranger survey the land formerly Sujah Dowlah's, and seek the cause of the calamity — should he ask what monstrous madness had ravaged thus, what widespread war, what desolating foreign foe, what disputed succession, what religious zeal, what fabled monster, had stalked abroad, and, with malice and mortal enmity to man, had withered, with the gripe of death, every growth of nature and humanity, all the means of delight, and each original, simple principle of bare existence, — the answer will be (if any answer dare be given): 'No, alas! not one of these things, — no desolating foreign foe, no disputed succession, no religious superserviceable zeal! This damp of death is the mere effusion of British amity: we sink under the pressure of their support, we writhe under the gripe of their pestiferous alliance!'” libenter, etc., I should be glad to argue this face to face, etc.; § 521, a (310, a); B. 305, 1; G. 600, 1; H. 575, 9 (507, N.7); H.-B. 578, 6. hostium simulatione, under a pretence of [the existence of] enemies: notice the chiastic order. animos ac spiritus, pride and insolence. conlatis signis, i.e. an actual warfare. nisi erit idem, unless he shall also be one. idoneus qui . . . mittatur: see note on impetret, p. 91, l. 21.
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