Memoirs of the Legal, Literary, and Political Life of the Late the Right Honourable John Philpot Curran, Once Master of the Rolls in Ireland:: Comprising Copious Anecdotes of His Wit and Humour; and a Selection of His Poetry. : Interspersed with Occasional Biography of His Distinguished Contemporaries in the Senate and at the Bar |
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... wish to Jasus I was back again in Dublin , and that I had never put my foot in this inhospitable and unpolite country ! " The point was carried : the doctor smirked and smiled at the ladies , as much as to say , we have a rare treat ...
... wish to Jasus I was back again in Dublin , and that I had never put my foot in this inhospitable and unpolite country ! " The point was carried : the doctor smirked and smiled at the ladies , as much as to say , we have a rare treat ...
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... wish to God she were ) , much better than I for myself . " " Did you ever read the Naufragium ? " " Oh yes , where the ship- wreck was , and where the lovely lady was perish- ing , and a lovelier never yet was seen , except the two ...
... wish to God she were ) , much better than I for myself . " " Did you ever read the Naufragium ? " " Oh yes , where the ship- wreck was , and where the lovely lady was perish- ing , and a lovelier never yet was seen , except the two ...
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... wish- ing to lighten it for the moment , told some anec- dotes directed to the taste and understanding of the ladies ; preserving in all he said a strict at- tention to Grammar , and occasionally enriching his tones with all the fatness ...
... wish- ing to lighten it for the moment , told some anec- dotes directed to the taste and understanding of the ladies ; preserving in all he said a strict at- tention to Grammar , and occasionally enriching his tones with all the fatness ...
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... wish to prepare them for the revocation of these improvident , concessions ? Do you think it wise or humane at this mo- ment to insult them , by sticking up in a pillory the man who dared to stand forth as their advocate ? I put it to ...
... wish to prepare them for the revocation of these improvident , concessions ? Do you think it wise or humane at this mo- ment to insult them , by sticking up in a pillory the man who dared to stand forth as their advocate ? I put it to ...
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... wish for a nearer and more in- teresting example , you have it in the history of your own revolution ; you have it at that memorable period , when the monarch found a servile acquiescence in the ministers of his folly ; when the liberty ...
... wish for a nearer and more in- teresting example , you have it in the history of your own revolution ; you have it at that memorable period , when the monarch found a servile acquiescence in the ministers of his folly ; when the liberty ...
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Page 62 - ... 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.
Page 300 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Page 65 - ... researches of her Hume, to the sweet and simple, but not less sublime and pathetic morality of her Burns —how, from the bosom of a country like that, genius and character and talents should be banished to a distant, barbarous soil, condemned to pine under the horrid communion of vulgar vice and base-born profligacy, for twice the period that ordinary calculation gives to the continuance of human life?
Page 97 - But I cherish, too, the consolatory hope that I shall be able to tell them that I had an old and learned friend whom I would put above all the sweepings of their hall, who was of a different opinion; who had derived his ideas of civil liberty from the purest fountains of Athens and of Rome; who had fed the youthful vigor of his studious mind with the theoretic knowledge of their wisest philosophers and statesmen...
Page 160 - There are men whose powers operate only at leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts : whose bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to their own character makes them unwilling to utter at hazard what has not been considered, and cannot be recalled.
Page 120 - In proportion to the humility of our submission to its rule do we rise into some faint emulation of that ineffable and presiding Divinity, whose characteristic attribute it is to be coerced and bound by the inexorable laws of its own nature, so as to be all-wise and alljust from necessity rather than election. You have seen it in the learned advocate who has preceded me most peculiarly and strikingly illustrated. You have seen even his great talents, perhaps the first in any country, languishing...
Page 128 - And shall not your honest verdict mark it as it deserves? But let me go a little further: let me ask you — for I confess I have no distinct idea...
Page 133 - ... from his heart. The heart of an Irishman is by nature bold, and he confides; it is tender, and he loves; it is generous, and he gives; it is social, and he is hospitable.
Page 126 - ... what you think of its enormity. In every point of view in which I can look at the subject, I see you are called upon to give a verdict of bold, and just, and indignant, and exemplary compensation. The injury of the plaintiff demands it from your justice ; the delinquency of the defendant provokes it by its enormity. The rank on which he has relied for impunity calls upon you to tell him, that crime does not ascend to the rank of the perpetrator, but the perpetrator sinks from his rank, and descends...
Page 95 - ... screened from punishment, they cannot be protected from hatred and derision. The great tribunal of reputation will pass its inexorable sentence upon their crimes, their follies, or their incompetency; they will sink themselves under the consciousness of their situation; they will feel the operation of an acid so neutralizing the malignity of their natures, as to make them at least harmless, if it cannot make them honest. Nor is there any thing of risk in the conduct I recommend. If the fire be...