The Life of the Right Honorable John Philpot Curran: Late Master of the Rolls in IrelandRedfield, 1855 - 535 páginas |
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... duty of his biographer , and not to amaze his readers by unin- structive panegyric . The lowness of his origin has been much exaggerated . His father , James Curran , who has been represented as an unlettered peasant , was Seneschal of ...
... duty of his biographer , and not to amaze his readers by unin- structive panegyric . The lowness of his origin has been much exaggerated . His father , James Curran , who has been represented as an unlettered peasant , was Seneschal of ...
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... duty , and seizing the opportunity , mer- cilessly satirized the reigning vices of the neighbours . This is almost the only exploit of his childhood that has been related . ** He entered Trinity College as a sizer , in 1769 , being then ...
... duty , and seizing the opportunity , mer- cilessly satirized the reigning vices of the neighbours . This is almost the only exploit of his childhood that has been related . ** He entered Trinity College as a sizer , in 1769 , being then ...
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... duty that does not give much trouble to many , I have been obliged to confine it , or endeavour to confine it , within proper bounds : I have , therefore , made a resolution to avoid any reflections of this sort , except in their ...
... duty that does not give much trouble to many , I have been obliged to confine it , or endeavour to confine it , within proper bounds : I have , therefore , made a resolution to avoid any reflections of this sort , except in their ...
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... duty called upon me , to reprimand and rebuke them , when they were acting against themselves . " In some of the published accounts of Mr. Curran's life , it has been stated that , when at the Temple , and afterwards while strug- gling ...
... duty called upon me , to reprimand and rebuke them , when they were acting against themselves . " In some of the published accounts of Mr. Curran's life , it has been stated that , when at the Temple , and afterwards while strug- gling ...
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... duties of their station . The effects , however , which such appeals to the passions produced ( as they still continue to do ) upon juries , was very different ; and when the advocate trans- ferred the same style into his addresses to ...
... duties of their station . The effects , however , which such appeals to the passions produced ( as they still continue to do ) upon juries , was very different ; and when the advocate trans- ferred the same style into his addresses to ...
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Página 114 - Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Página 172 - British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation. 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 burnt upon...
Página 174 - I will not relinquish the confidence that this day will be the period of his sufferings ; and however mercilessly he has been hitherto pursued, that your verdict will send him home to the arms of his family, and the wishes of his country. But if, which heaven forbid, it hath still been unfortunately determined, that because he has not bent to power and authority, because he would not bow down before the golden calf and worship it, he is to be bound and cast into the furnace; I do trust in God, that...
Página 186 - O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.
Página 82 - Monks of the Screw;" Good rules he revealed to our Abbot To guide us in what we should do; But first he replenished our fountain With liquor the best in the sky; And he said, on the word of a saint, That the fountain should never run dry.
Página 390 - Britain, a printer has been gravely found guilty of a libel, for publishing those resolutions, to which the present minister of that kingdom had actually subscribed his name ? To what other cause can you ascribe, what in my mind is still more astonishing, in such a country as Scotland, a nation cast in the happy medium between the spiritless acquiescence of submissive poverty, and the sturdy credulity of pampered wealth ; cool and ardent, adventurous and persevering ; winning her eagle flight against...
Página 163 - I am aware, my lords, that truth is to be sought only by slow and painful progress; I know also that error is in its nature flippant and compendious ; it hops with airy and fastidious levity over proofs and arguments, and perches upon assertion, which it calls conclusion.
Página 173 - 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 goes forth ; the public eye is upon him ; he frets his busy hour upon the stage.
Página 83 - I draw from the dearest and tenderest recollections of my life, from the remembrance of those attic nights and those refections of the gods which we have spent with those admired and respected and beloved companions who have gone before us; — over whose ashes the most precious tears of Ireland have been shed...
Página 433 - And strait conjunction with this sex: for either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake; Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain Through her perverseness, but shall see her...