Speeches of John Philpot Curran: To which is Added Henry Gratten, Esq's Celebrated Speech on the Catholic QuestionStockdale, printer, 1805 - 416 oldal |
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... prefent volume experienced in colle & ing thofe of Mr. Curran , it is probable in a few years , to procure Mr. Erfkine's may be impoffible . From a fimilar neglect , few memorials are now to be had of the profeffional eloquence of ...
... prefent volume experienced in colle & ing thofe of Mr. Curran , it is probable in a few years , to procure Mr. Erfkine's may be impoffible . From a fimilar neglect , few memorials are now to be had of the profeffional eloquence of ...
x. oldal
... prefent : fo well is his wit tempered by the urbanity of his difpofition . It is much fu- 1 perior to that fpecies which must always have an object to ridicule , and to amufe a company , render one of the party miferable . Nor is it of ...
... prefent : fo well is his wit tempered by the urbanity of his difpofition . It is much fu- 1 perior to that fpecies which must always have an object to ridicule , and to amufe a company , render one of the party miferable . Nor is it of ...
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... prefent con- ftitution of the corporation of the city of Dublin , " arifen , and for fome years paít fubfifted among " several citizens of the faid city , to the weaken- , 66 ing the authority of the magiftrates thereof , who < are ...
... prefent con- ftitution of the corporation of the city of Dublin , " arifen , and for fome years paít fubfifted among " several citizens of the faid city , to the weaken- , 66 ing the authority of the magiftrates thereof , who < are ...
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... prefent contest . THE claim of my clients has been impeached upon an alleged meaning of this act , and also upon certain facts ftated by the learned counfel on the other fide , and admitted as proved ; of which facts , and the arguments ...
... prefent contest . THE claim of my clients has been impeached upon an alleged meaning of this act , and also upon certain facts ftated by the learned counfel on the other fide , and admitted as proved ; of which facts , and the arguments ...
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... prefent petitioners , having both exactly the fame pretenfions to your approbation which they have at prefent ; you have refufed your approba- tion , and you have affigned no caufe ; but let me ask a much more material queftion , what ...
... prefent petitioners , having both exactly the fame pretenfions to your approbation which they have at prefent ; you have refufed your approba- tion , and you have affigned no caufe ; but let me ask a much more material queftion , what ...
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97. oldal - No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced ; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have...
125. oldal - I cannot but feel the peculiarity of your situation. Not the jury of his own choice, which the law of England allows, but which ours refuses ; collected in that box by a person, certainly no friend to Mr. Rowan, certainly not very deeply interested in giving him a very impartial jury. Feeling this, as...
114. oldal - Hume, to the sweet and simple, but not less sublime and pathetic morality of her Burns —how, from the bosom of a country like that, genius and character and talents should be banished to a distant, barbarous soil, condemned to pine under the horrid communion of vulgar vice and base-born profligacy, for twice the period that ordinary calculation gives to the continuance of human life?
97. oldal - ... measure ? to propose the redeeming of religion from the abuses of the church, the reclaiming of three millions of men from bondage, and giving liberty to all who had a right to demand it ; giving, I say, in the so much censured words of this paper, giving
206. oldal - Have you not marked how the human heart bowed to the supremacy of his power, in the undissembled homage of deferential horror ? How his glance, like the lightning of heaven, seemed to rive the body of the accused, and mark it for the grave, while his voice warned the devoted wretch of...
328. oldal - ... instead of being transmitted, as it ought, to be expended in the splendour of another country. He is now probably waiting for the arrival of the report of this day, which, I understand, a famous note-taker has been sent hither to collect. (Let not the gentleman be disturbed.)* Gentlemen, let me assure you, it is more...
5. oldal - It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance \ which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.
121. oldal - There is something whimsical enough in this curious story. Put his credit upon the positive evidence adduced to his character. "Who he is I know not. I know not the man; but his credit is impeached. Mr. Blake was called; he said he knew him. I asked him, " Do you think, sir, that Mr. Lyster is or is not a man deserving credit upon his oath?
111. oldal - And what calamities are the people saved from by having public communication left open to them? I will tell you, gentlemen, what they are saved from, and what the government is saved from; I will tell you, also, to what both are exposed by shutting up that communication. In one case sedition speaks aloud and walks abroad; the demagogue...
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