The Life of the Right Honorable John Philpot Curran, Late Master of the Rolls in IrelandRedfield, 1858 - 535 pages |
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... period , remain ; and it is not unpleasing to observe in them the striking revolution that a few years had effected in the fortunes of his pupil . In some of them the little villager , whom he had adopted , is seen exalted into a ...
... period , remain ; and it is not unpleasing to observe in them the striking revolution that a few years had effected in the fortunes of his pupil . In some of them the little villager , whom he had adopted , is seen exalted into a ...
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... period remarkable for his disposition to subtle disputation and metaphysical inquiries , connected with which a circumstance may be mentioned that strikingly illus- trates the speculative propensities of his young and ardent mind . A ...
... period remarkable for his disposition to subtle disputation and metaphysical inquiries , connected with which a circumstance may be mentioned that strikingly illus- trates the speculative propensities of his young and ardent mind . A ...
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... period of his career , when hope and ardour were the most precious benefits that a friend could bestow . During a temporary absence of Apjohn from college , a report reached his companions that he had died suddenly at his native place ...
... period of his career , when hope and ardour were the most precious benefits that a friend could bestow . During a temporary absence of Apjohn from college , a report reached his companions that he had died suddenly at his native place ...
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... period of life in which the best can scarce escape the rigid severity of censure ; nor could the little trivial vanity of taking the reins of my own conduct alleviate the pain of so dear - bought a transition from dependence to liberty ...
... period of life in which the best can scarce escape the rigid severity of censure ; nor could the little trivial vanity of taking the reins of my own conduct alleviate the pain of so dear - bought a transition from dependence to liberty ...
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... periods are not then without their advantage . They admonish us , at least , to dedicate one day in the year to a little reflec- tion . The incidents of our life crowd in upon our thoughts , the pleasures we have found , the anxious ...
... periods are not then without their advantage . They admonish us , at least , to dedicate one day in the year to a little reflec- tion . The incidents of our life crowd in upon our thoughts , the pleasures we have found , the anxious ...
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Page 86 - 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.
Page 130 - 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...
Page 302 - Scotland — a na-tion 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 ; winging her eagle flight against the blaze of every science, with an eye that never winks, and a wing that never tires ; crowned as she is with the spoils of every art.
Page 63 - It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Page 327 - And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
Page 131 - 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.
Page 345 - 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...
Page 132 - In that awful moment of a nation's travail, of the last gasp of tyranny, and the first breath of freedom, how pregnant is the example ? The press extinguished, the people enslaved, and the prince undone.
Page 61 - 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...
Page 34 - On the bare earth exposed he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes. With downcast looks the joyless Victor sate, Revolving in his alter'd soul The various turns of chance below ; And now and then a sigh he stole, And tears began to flow.