Speeches of John Philpot Curran, Esq: With a Brief Sketch of the History of Ireland, Volume 2Print. and pub. by I. Riley, 1811 - Ireland |
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Page 55
... defendant could by possibility shake it ; but the humanity of the law has also given to the prisoner a great advantage indeed , and that was the solemn and awful duty that was imposed upon * We insert this trial merely to show the ...
... defendant could by possibility shake it ; but the humanity of the law has also given to the prisoner a great advantage indeed , and that was the solemn and awful duty that was imposed upon * We insert this trial merely to show the ...
Page 63
... defendant , if it shall appear supported by proof . And the event must stamp the most condign and indelible disgrace on the guilty defendant , unless an unworthy verdict should shift the scan- dal upon another quarter . On the record ...
... defendant , if it shall appear supported by proof . And the event must stamp the most condign and indelible disgrace on the guilty defendant , unless an unworthy verdict should shift the scan- dal upon another quarter . On the record ...
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... defendant , from an obscure individual , started into notice and consequence . It is in the hot - bed of public calamity , that such portentous and inauspicious products are accelerated without being matured . From being a town major ...
... defendant , from an obscure individual , started into notice and consequence . It is in the hot - bed of public calamity , that such portentous and inauspicious products are accelerated without being matured . From being a town major ...
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... defendant , soon arrived , went into his office , and returned with an order which he had written , and by virtue of which Mr. Hevey way conveyed to the custody of his old friend and gaoler , Major Sandys . Here he was flung into a room ...
... defendant , soon arrived , went into his office , and returned with an order which he had written , and by virtue of which Mr. Hevey way conveyed to the custody of his old friend and gaoler , Major Sandys . Here he was flung into a room ...
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... defendant ; but my reasons for giving you this advice lie much deeper than such considerations ; they spring from a view of our present most forlorn and disastrous situa- · tion . You are now in the hands of another country ; that ...
... defendant ; but my reasons for giving you this advice lie much deeper than such considerations ; they spring from a view of our present most forlorn and disastrous situa- · tion . You are now in the hands of another country ; that ...
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Page 141 - ... an undeserved reproach thrown upon him during his trial, by charging him with ambition, and attempting to cast away for a paltry consideration the liberties of his country ! Why did your lordship insult me?
Page 138 - What have I to say, why sentence of death should not be pronounced on me, according to law ? — I have nothing to say that can alter your predetermination, nor that it will become me to say, with any view to the mitigation of that sentence which you are here to pronounce, and I must abide by.
Page 139 - I should bow in silence, and meet the fate that awaits me without a murmur. But the sentence of the law which delivers my body to the executioner will, through the ministry of that law, labor, in its own vindication, to consign my character to obloquy...
Page 98 - Some trust in chariots, and some in horses : but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. . 8 They are brought down and fallen : but we are risen, and stand upright.
Page 142 - I am charged with being an emissary of France. An emissary of France! and for what end? It is alleged that I wished to sell the independence of my country; and for what end?
Page 145 - If the spirits of the illustrious dead participate in the concerns and cares of those who are dear to them in this transitory life, O, ever dear and venerated shade of my departed father, look down with scrutiny upon the conduct of your suffering son...
Page 141 - My lords, it may be a part of the system of angry justice...
Page 76 - Abercromby, our poor people were surrendered to the licentious brutality of the soldiery, by the authority of the state — you would vainly endeavour to give her a general picture of lust, and rapine, and murder, and conflagration. By endeavouring to comprehend every thing, you would convey nothing.