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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... Election of Lord Mayor of the city of Dublin , delivered before the Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council of Ireland , 1790 , Speech of Mr. Curran in the cause of The King against the Hon . Mr. Justice Johnson , in the Court of Exchequer ...
... Election of Lord Mayor of the city of Dublin , delivered before the Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council of Ireland , 1790 , Speech of Mr. Curran in the cause of The King against the Hon . Mr. Justice Johnson , in the Court of Exchequer ...
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... election of delegates to serve three months . Michael Rey- nolds , who was present at that meeting , said there was to be a meeting on the Monday following at Bond's , and told this deponent to ask for M'Cann , or Ivers , from Carlow ...
... election of delegates to serve three months . Michael Rey- nolds , who was present at that meeting , said there was to be a meeting on the Monday following at Bond's , and told this deponent to ask for M'Cann , or Ivers , from Carlow ...
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... election , between proving his guilt by his own corporal oath , or by the more credible modesty of his silence . And now ( said Mr. Curran ) I have given you a sketch of this extraordinary history . No country , governed by any set ...
... election , between proving his guilt by his own corporal oath , or by the more credible modesty of his silence . And now ( said Mr. Curran ) I have given you a sketch of this extraordinary history . No country , governed by any set ...
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... election ; and not only so descended , but is a person of liberal education - a member of one of the learn- ed professions in the prime of life - a man not only of inof- fensive manners , and of innocent life , but a man whose vir- tues ...
... election ; and not only so descended , but is a person of liberal education - a member of one of the learn- ed professions in the prime of life - a man not only of inof- fensive manners , and of innocent life , but a man whose vir- tues ...
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... election . You have seen it in the learn- ed advocate who has preceded me , most peculiarly and strikingly illustrated - you have seen even his great talents , perhaps the first in any country , languishing under a cause too weak to ...
... election . You have seen it in the learn- ed advocate who has preceded me , most peculiarly and strikingly illustrated - you have seen even his great talents , perhaps the first in any country , languishing under a cause too weak to ...
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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.