The Life of the Right Honorable John Philpot Curran, Late Master of the Rolls in IrelandRedfield, 1858 - 535 pages |
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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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