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... bench ; and , not only bagless , but briefless , I was one day with many an associate taking the idle round of the hall of the Four Courts , when a com- mon friend told me he was commissioned by the Mas- ter of the Rolls to invite me to ...
... bench ; and , not only bagless , but briefless , I was one day with many an associate taking the idle round of the hall of the Four Courts , when a com- mon friend told me he was commissioned by the Mas- ter of the Rolls to invite me to ...
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... bench . In the year 1770 , and during the succeeding sessions , he had to encounter , almost alone , an opposition headed by Mr Flood , and composed of as much effective hostility as ever faced a treasury bench . His powers were rather ...
... bench . In the year 1770 , and during the succeeding sessions , he had to encounter , almost alone , an opposition headed by Mr Flood , and composed of as much effective hostility as ever faced a treasury bench . His powers were rather ...
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... bench , indeed , and in some instances with Mr Curran , he was occasionally very over- bearing ; but a bar such as I have described was not easily to be overborne ; and , for some asperity to a barrister of the name of Hackett , he was ...
... bench , indeed , and in some instances with Mr Curran , he was occasionally very over- bearing ; but a bar such as I have described was not easily to be overborne ; and , for some asperity to a barrister of the name of Hackett , he was ...
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... bench ) followed . " I know not , " said he , " in what character of his life , whether public or private , he most commanded our admiration - whether as the humane advocate of the unfortunate , as the tender husband and father , or on ...
... bench ) followed . " I know not , " said he , " in what character of his life , whether public or private , he most commanded our admiration - whether as the humane advocate of the unfortunate , as the tender husband and father , or on ...
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... bench with an influence rendered more respectable by the proofs of his independence . It is very true that he pro- vided amply for his family ; and I am glad he did so , because on many occasions they have proved themselves ornaments to ...
... bench with an influence rendered more respectable by the proofs of his independence . It is very true that he pro- vided amply for his family ; and I am glad he did so , because on many occasions they have proved themselves ornaments to ...
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Page 78 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Page 310 - She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers around her are sighing; But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying.
Page 310 - He had lived for his love, for his country he died, They were all that to life had entwined him ; Nor soon shall the tears of his country be dried, Nor long will his love stay behind him. Oh ! make her a grave where the sunbeams rest When they promise a glorious morrow ; They'll shine o'er her sleep, like a smile from the West, From her own loved island of sorrow.
Page 304 - OH! BREATHE NOT HIS NAME. OH ! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid ; Sad, silent, and dark, be the tears that we shed, As the night-dew that falls on the grass o'er his head. But the night-dew that falls, though in silence it weeps, Shall brighten with verdure the grave where he sleeps ; And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
Page 310 - SHE is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers are round her sighing ; But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying.
Page 298 - You, my lord, are a judge ; I am the supposed culprit: I am a man, you are a man also; by a revolution of power we might change places, though we never could change characters. If I stand at the bar of this court and dare not vindicate my character, what a farce is your justice?
Page 301 - I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world - it is the charity of its silence ! Let no man write my epitaph: for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them.
Page 299 - By you, too, who, if it were possible to collect all the innocent blood that you have shed in your unhallowed ministry, in one great reservoir, your lordship might swim in...
Page 173 - ... no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery ; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust ; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty ; his body swells beyond the measure of his chains that burst from around him, and he stands redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled, by the irresistible Genius of UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION ! [Here Mr.
Page 297 - 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...