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" ... despot nor the machinations of the slave have any slumber ; the one anticipating the moment of peril, the other watching the opportunity of aggression. The fatal crisis is equally a surprise upon both ; the decisive instant is precipitated without... "
The Lives and Trials of Archibald Hamilton Rowan, the Rev. William Jackson ... - Page 102
by Thomas MacNevin - 1846 - 598 pages
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Forensic Eloquence: Sketches of Trials in Ireland for High Treason, Etc ...

John Philpot Curran - Ireland - 1804 - 408 pages
...precipitated without warning, by folly on the one side, or by frenzy on the other, and there is.no notice of the treason till the traitor acts. In those unfortunate countries (one can$ot read it without horror) there are officers whose province it is, to have the water, which is...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 3

Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 458 pages
...both. The decisive instant is precipitated without warning, by folly on the one side, or by phrensy on the other ; and there is no notice of the treason till the traitor acts, In those unfortunatq countries (one cannot read it without horrour) there are officers whose province it is,...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 3

Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 464 pages
...without warning, by folly on the one side, or by phrensy on the other ; and there is no notice of t'ie treason till the traitor acts. In those unfortunate countries (one cannot read it without horrour) there are officers whose province it is, to have the water, which is to be drank by their...
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The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches ..., Volume 3

Oratory - 1808 - 542 pages
...convention in the heart of your capital, carrying on an actual treaty with the existing government. water, which is to be drank by their rulers, sealed...wretched miscreant should throw poison into the draught. " But, gentlemen, if you wish for a nearer and more interesting example, you have in the history of...
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The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches ..., Volume 3

Thomas Browne (LL.D.) - Oratory - 1810 - 516 pages
...both ; the decisive instant is precipitated without warning, by folly on the one side, or by phrensy on the other, and there is no notice of the treason...wretched miscreant should throw poison into the draught. " But, gentlemen, if you wish for a nearer and more interesting example, you have in the history of...
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Speeches of John Philpot Curran, Esq: With a Brief Sketch of the ..., Volume 1

John Philpot Curran - Ireland - 1811 - 368 pages
...both; the decisive instant is precipitated without warning, by folly on the one side, or by phrensy on the other, and there is no notice of the treason...drank by their rulers sealed up in bottles, lest some miscreant should throw poison in the draught ! .. , . ., .••.•; '• i- i , •' But, gentlemen,•...
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Speeches of John Philpot Curran, Esq: With a Brief Sketch of the ..., Volume 1

John Philpot Curran - Ireland - 1811 - 358 pages
...both ; the decisive instant is precipitated without warning, by folly on the one side, or by phrensy on the other, and there is no notice of the treason...drank by their rulers sealed up in bottles, lest some miscreant should throw poison in the draught ! But, gentlemen, if you wish for a nearer and more inte»...
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The American Orator: Comprising a Collection, Principally from American ...

Joshua P. Slack - Elocution - 1815 - 340 pages
...both ; the decisive instant is precipitated without warning, by folly on the one side, and by phrenzy on the other, and there is no notice of the treason...wretched miscreant should throw poison into the draught. But, gentlemen, if you wish for a nearer and more in^ teresting example, you have it in the history...
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Memoirs of the legal, literary, and political life of ... John Philpot Curran

William O'Regan - 1817 - 342 pages
...both ; the decisive instant is precipitated without warning, by folly on the one side, or by phrensy on the other, and there is no notice of the treason...whose province it is to have the water, which is to be drunk, by their rulers, sealed up in bottles, lest some vfc .wretched miscreant should throw poison...
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Memoirs of the Legal, Literary, and Political Life of the Late the Right ...

William O'Regan - Lawyers - 1817 - 346 pages
...both ; the decisive instant is precipitated without warning, by folly on the one side, or by phrensy on the other, and there is no notice of. the treason...whose province it is to have the water, which is to be drunk by their rulers, sealed up in bottles, lest some wretched miscreant should throw poison into...
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