 | John Philpot Curran - 1872 - 632 oldal
...torrent of corruption at an earl^ period, lay at the bottom, like drowned bodies, while soundness or sanity remained in them; but, at length, becoming...abomination.* In that awful moment of a nation's travail, of *' "It may not be ungratifying to hear the manner in which this passage was suggested to the speaker's... | |
 | Charles Anderton Read - 1879 - 390 oldal
...torrent of corruption at an early period, lay at the bottom, like drowned bodies, while soundness or sanity remained in them; but at length, becoming buoyant...objects of terror, and contagion, and abomination. countries — I conjure you to guard the liberty of the press, that great sentinel of the state, that... | |
 | Henry Hardwicke - 1896 - 546 oldal
...government, which nothing but the depravity, or folly, or corruption of a jury can ever destroy. " In that awful moment of a nation's travail, of the last gasp of tyranny, and the first breath of freedpm, how pregnant is the example! The press extinguished, the people enslaved, and the prince undone.... | |
 | Van Vechten Veeder - 1903 - 656 oldal
...torrent of corruption at an early period, lay at the bottom, like drowned bodies, while soundness or sanity remained in them, but at length, becoming buoyant...to the surface of the polluted stream, where they drifted along, the objects of terror and contagion and abomination. In that awful moment of the nation's... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - 1904 - 488 oldal
...torrent of corruption at an early period, lay at the bottom, like drowned bodies, while soundness or sanity remained in them; but at length, becoming buoyant...where they were drifted along, the objects of terror, contagion, and abomination. In that awful moment of a nation's travail, of the last gasp of tyranny... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 458 oldal
...torrent of corruption at an early period, lay at the bottom like drowned bodies while soundness or sanity remained in them ; but at length, becoming...objects of terror, and contagion, and abomination. 3008 In that awful moment of a nation's travail, of the last gasp of tyranny and the first breath of... | |
 | 1881 - 818 oldal
...torrent oi corruption at an early period, lay at the bottom like drowned bodies while soundness or sanity remained in them. But at length, becoming buoyant...objects of terror and contagion and abomination." Every page of Curran's orations abound in the characteristics we have quoted from Jeffrey. This eloquence... | |
 | Frank Jenners Wilstach - 1916 - 540 oldal
...torrent of corruption at an early period, lay at the bottom, like drowned bodies, while soundness or sanity remained in them ; but, at length, becoming...objects of terror, and contagion, and abomination. — JP CURRAN, Fortune. FRAGILE. — FRANTIC. Fragile. Fragile as a lily. — ANON. Fragile as rainbows.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1809 - 490 oldal
...torrent of corruption at an early period, lay at the bottom like drowned bodies, while soundness or sanity remained in them; but at length, becoming buoyant...objects of terror, and contagion, and abomination.' On this image, from which every eye recoils with disgust and abhorrence, Mr. Curran has a distempered... | |
 | 1794 - 624 oldal
...rotted and floated to the furface of the polluted dream, where they were drifted along, the objefts of terror, and contagion, and abomination. In that awful moment of a nation's travail, of the lad gafp of tyranny, and the fit ft breath of freedom, how pregnant is the example ? The prefs extinguiflied,... | |
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... those foundlings of fortune, who, overwhelmed in the torrent of corruption at an early period, lay at the bottom like drowned bodies, while soundness or sanity remained in them ; but at length becoming buoyant by putrefaction, they rose as they rotted,... 
