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... mind strengthened , an inquiry natu- rally arose into the causes of such enviable celebrity . The bonvivant referred me to his wit ; the scholar to his eloquence ; the patriot to his ardent and undeviating prin- ciple . The questions on ...
... mind strengthened , an inquiry natu- rally arose into the causes of such enviable celebrity . The bonvivant referred me to his wit ; the scholar to his eloquence ; the patriot to his ardent and undeviating prin- ciple . The questions on ...
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... mind and the negligence of his habits are perfectly reconcilable . From the academy of Middleton he passed on to Trinity College , Dublin , which he entered as a sizar on the 16th of June 1769 , aged nineteen , under the tutelage of ...
... mind and the negligence of his habits are perfectly reconcilable . From the academy of Middleton he passed on to Trinity College , Dublin , which he entered as a sizar on the 16th of June 1769 , aged nineteen , under the tutelage of ...
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... mind ; the hurry also of the journey might have contributed to soothe for the moment these uneasy sensations . But the exertion was now over , the hurry was past , the barriers between me and reflection now gave way , and left me to be ...
... mind ; the hurry also of the journey might have contributed to soothe for the moment these uneasy sensations . But the exertion was now over , the hurry was past , the barriers between me and reflection now gave way , and left me to be ...
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... mind that is once depressed ! Even this little disappointment , though it was of no consequence , though it could not surprise me , yet had the power to afflict me , at least to add to my other mortifications . I could not help being ...
... mind that is once depressed ! Even this little disappointment , though it was of no consequence , though it could not surprise me , yet had the power to afflict me , at least to add to my other mortifications . I could not help being ...
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... mind as to the body ? And is all our firmness and intrepidity founded ultimately on our weakness and our foibles ... mind I called to mind my first acquaintance with my little trunk ; I industriously hunted my memory for everything that ...
... mind as to the body ? And is all our firmness and intrepidity founded ultimately on our weakness and our foibles ... mind I called to mind my first acquaintance with my little trunk ; I industriously hunted my memory for everything that ...
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Popular passages
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...