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... suffered like himself , alas ! the common lot of humanity — a lot which it is in vain for us to deplore , because impossible for us to prevent . Of his literary productions at that early period , I have only been able to collect the ...
... suffered like himself , alas ! the common lot of humanity — a lot which it is in vain for us to deplore , because impossible for us to prevent . Of his literary productions at that early period , I have only been able to collect the ...
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... suffered from that disorder . To do them all justice , they exerted themselves zealously for the common entertainment . As for my part , I had nothing to say ; nor , if I had , was any one at leisure to listen to me ; so I took ...
... suffered from that disorder . To do them all justice , they exerted themselves zealously for the common entertainment . As for my part , I had nothing to say ; nor , if I had , was any one at leisure to listen to me ; so I took ...
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... suffered his own personal interests to super- sede his duty to the country . On two several occasions , where they clashed , he never hesitated . In 1789 , when an eminent law - officer , ( I think Prime - Serjeant , ) I find him moving ...
... suffered his own personal interests to super- sede his duty to the country . On two several occasions , where they clashed , he never hesitated . In 1789 , when an eminent law - officer , ( I think Prime - Serjeant , ) I find him moving ...
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... suffered himself rather to be borne along by the tide of a barbarous custom , than regu- lated by any fixed principle of his own . In the case alluded to , he had very far indeed exceeded his instruc- tions , and that was the reason why ...
... suffered himself rather to be borne along by the tide of a barbarous custom , than regu- lated by any fixed principle of his own . In the case alluded to , he had very far indeed exceeded his instruc- tions , and that was the reason why ...
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... suffered to perish . Posterity , therefore , will find little to justify a reputation which was unquestionably his due . Curran told me one evening at the Priory that " Flood was immeasurably the greatest man of his time in Ireland ...
... suffered to perish . Posterity , therefore , will find little to justify a reputation which was unquestionably his due . Curran told me one evening at the Priory that " Flood was immeasurably the greatest man of his time in Ireland ...
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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...