Cut and Come Again!: The Life and Anecdotes of John Philpot Curran, and Speeches in Defence of the United Irishmen, with Humorous and Witty Bar Jests; a Variety of Funny Good Things, Quite Out of the Common Style. Being a Specimen of Irish Originality and Curren-t Wit, Admirably Calculated to Prevent Enblishmen Cutting Their Throats in NovemberEdward Smyth, bookseller, 33, Temple Bar., 1880 - 96 oldal |
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30. oldal - they had been worked upon by the fear of death and the hopes of compensation, to give evidence against their fellows ; that the mild and wholesome councils of this government are holden over these catacombs of living death, where the wretch that is buried a man lies till his heart has
32. oldal - The perverseness of a mean and narrow intellect are like the excrescences that grow upon a body naturally cold! and dark : no fire to waste them, and no ray to enlighten, they assimilate and coalesce with those qualities so congenial to their nature, and acquire an incorrigible permanency in the union with kindred frost and kindred •opacity.
27. oldal - expressed it, to see whether mercy could be extended or not! that, after that period of lingering deliberation passed, a third respite is transmitted; that the unhappy captive himself feels the cheering hope •of being restored to a family that he had adored, to a character that he
62. oldal - window, said to him in Italian, " What does a man think of, Sir Edward, when he thinks of nothing ?" After a little pause, he answered, " He thinks, madam, of a woman's promise." The queen shrunk in her head, but was heard to say, "Well, Sir Edward, I must not confute you; anger makes dull men witty, but it
30. oldal - the pillory. I speak of what your own eyes have seen, day after day, from the box where you are now sitting ; the number of horrid miscreants who avowed upon their oaths that they had come from the very seat of government—from the
26. oldal - and vulgar ? If this be his complaint, my client has but a poor advocate. I do not pretend to be a mighty grammarian, or a formidable critic ; but I •would beg leave to suggest to you, in serious humility, that a free press can be supported only by the ardour of men who feel the
29. oldal - their looks as they pass along; retire to the bosom of your families and your children, and when you are presiding over the morality of the parental board, tell those infants, who are to be the future men of Ireland, the history of this day. Form their young minds
26. oldal - of authority like the awful and inscrutable dispensations of Providence, and say to the unfeeling and despotic spoiler in the blasphemed and insulted language of religious resignation—the Lord hath given, and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord ! But let me condense the generality of the learned
27. oldal - unheard-of crimes are discovered against the informer ; that the royal mercy seems to relent, and that a new respite is sent to the prisoner; that time is taken, as the learned counsel for the crown expressed it, to see whether mercy could be extended or not! that, after
41. oldal - exhaust myself—I will add nothing more, than that it is as false as it is impudent—that in the evidence it has not a color of support; and that by your verdict you should mark it with reprobation. The other subject, namely, that he was indiscreet in his confidence, does, I think, call for some