Speeches of John Philpot Curran, Esq: With a Brief Sketch of the History of Ireland, 2. kötetPrint. and pub. by I. Riley, 1811 |
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1 - 5 találat összesen 52 találatból.
4. oldal
... leave the kingdom for a little time , and to stipulate that he was not to give evidence against United Irishmen , and the channel whence the information came was to be kept secret . Mr. Cope bid this deponent mention any sum and he ...
... leave the kingdom for a little time , and to stipulate that he was not to give evidence against United Irishmen , and the channel whence the information came was to be kept secret . Mr. Cope bid this deponent mention any sum and he ...
6. oldal
... leave the country , but a party of the Cork militia came to his house , put him under arrest , staid seven or eight days , drank his wine , and broke things . This deponent afterwards set out for Dublin , but changing his mind on the ...
... leave the country , but a party of the Cork militia came to his house , put him under arrest , staid seven or eight days , drank his wine , and broke things . This deponent afterwards set out for Dublin , but changing his mind on the ...
10. oldal
... leaves to be ex- pounded by the mouth of the king's judges . Some censure on former occasions hath fallen on former judges , from a breach of this doctrine . Upon a former occasion I differed in opinion from the learned judge who then ...
... leaves to be ex- pounded by the mouth of the king's judges . Some censure on former occasions hath fallen on former judges , from a breach of this doctrine . Upon a former occasion I differed in opinion from the learned judge who then ...
14. oldal
... leave to draw a little bit of a note on you for five hundred guineas ; only by way of indemnity for losses I have sustained , or am liable to sustain . Gentlemen of the jury , don't you see the vast distinction between a bribe and a ...
... leave to draw a little bit of a note on you for five hundred guineas ; only by way of indemnity for losses I have sustained , or am liable to sustain . Gentlemen of the jury , don't you see the vast distinction between a bribe and a ...
15. oldal
... leave to draw a bit of paper on you at present , only for 300 guineas ; it will ope- rate like a bandage to a sore leg ; though it won't cure the sore , or the rottenness of the bone , it may hide it from the public view . I will , says ...
... leave to draw a bit of paper on you at present , only for 300 guineas ; it will ope- rate like a bandage to a sore leg ; though it won't cure the sore , or the rottenness of the bone , it may hide it from the public view . I will , says ...
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145. oldal - I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world — it is the charity of its silence...
145. oldal - If the spirits of the illustrious dead participate in the concerns and cares of those who are dear to them in this transitory life — O ever dear and venerated shade of my departed father, look down with scrutiny upon the conduct of your suffering son ; and see if I have even for a moment deviated from those principles of morality and patriotism which it was your care to instil into my youthful mind ; and for which I am now to offer up my life.
138. oldal - What have I to say, why sentence of death should not be pronounced on me, according to law ? — I have nothing to say that can alter your predetermination, nor that it will become me to say, with any view to the mitigation of that sentence which you are here to pronounce, and I must abide by.
298. oldal - Ireland have been shed; yes, my good lord, I see you do not forget them; I see their sacred forms passing in sad review before your memory; I see your pained and softened fancy recalling those happy meetings, when the innocent enjoyment of social mirth expanded into the nobler warmth of social virtue; and the horizon of the board became enlarged into the horizon of man...
138. oldal - I do not imagine that, seated where you are, your minds can be so free from impurity as to receive the least impression from what I am going to utter.
214. oldal - ... pass. What are your inducements? Is it love, think you? No, do not give that name to any attraction you can find in the faded refuse of a violated bed. Love is a noble and generous passion; it can be founded only on a pure and ardent friendship, on an exalted respect — on an implicit confidence in its object.
141. oldal - You, my lord, are a judge. I am the supposed culprit I am a man, — you are a man also.
140. oldal - I have always understood it to be the duty of a judge, when a prisoner has been convicted, to pronounce the sentence of the law. I have also understood that judges sometimes think it their duty to hear with patience and to speak with humanity...
143. oldal - Were the French to come as invaders or enemies, uninvited by the wishes of the people, I should oppose them to the utmost of my strength. Yes ! my countrymen, I should advise you to meet them upon the beach with a sword in one hand and a torch in the other.