The Lives and Trials of Archibald Hamilton Rowan, the Rev. William Jackson, the Defenders, William Orr, Peter Finnerty, and Other Eminent Irishmen |
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... justice , earned for him a considerable share of popular affection , and general esteem . Sir Jonah Barrington , in ... JUSTICE ON THE CASTLE GATE . Since Justice is now but a pageant of state , Remove me , I pray you , from this Castle ...
... justice , earned for him a considerable share of popular affection , and general esteem . Sir Jonah Barrington , in ... JUSTICE ON THE CASTLE GATE . Since Justice is now but a pageant of state , Remove me , I pray you , from this Castle ...
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... justice . I am warranted by the authority of a court of justice , by the proceedings of the King's Bench in England ; by the opinion of a Judge of as much spirit and independence as any man , I allude to the case of the printer of the ...
... justice . I am warranted by the authority of a court of justice , by the proceedings of the King's Bench in England ; by the opinion of a Judge of as much spirit and independence as any man , I allude to the case of the printer of the ...
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... Justice , asked the counsel for the defendant whether they wished to have the information read , in order to com- pare it with the publication . Mr. CURRAN . We have instructions not to take any captious objections , and therefore do ...
... Justice , asked the counsel for the defendant whether they wished to have the information read , in order to com- pare it with the publication . Mr. CURRAN . We have instructions not to take any captious objections , and therefore do ...
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... justice , upon what principle of common sense , you can charge a man for the publication of sentiments , the very reverse of what his words avow ? And that , when there is no collateral evidence , where there is no foundation whatever ...
... justice , upon what principle of common sense , you can charge a man for the publication of sentiments , the very reverse of what his words avow ? And that , when there is no collateral evidence , where there is no foundation whatever ...
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... justice will demand , why has an Irish jury done this deed ? The moment he ceases to be regarded as a criminal , he becomes of necessity an accuser ; and let me ask you , what can your most zealous defenders be prepared to answer to ...
... justice will demand , why has an Irish jury done this deed ? The moment he ceases to be regarded as a criminal , he becomes of necessity an accuser ; and let me ask you , what can your most zealous defenders be prepared to answer to ...
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Page 89 - ... 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 54 - In contempt of our said Lord the King, in open violation of the laws of this kingdom, to the evil and pernicious example of all others in the like case offending, and against the peace of our said Lord the King, his crown and dignity.
Page 535 - ... the lightning of heaven, seemed to rive the body of the accused, and mark it for the grave, while his voice warned the devoted wretch of woe and death ; a death which no innocence can escape, no art elude, no force resist, no antidote prevent. There was an antidote — a juror's oath— but even that adamantine chain, that bound the integrity of man to the throne of Eternal Justice, is solved and melted in the breath that issues from the informer's mouth — conscience swings from her mooring,...
Page 253 - Treason, but by and upon the Oaths and Testimony of Two lawful Witnesses, either both of them to the same Overt Act, or one of them to one, and the other of them to another Overt Act of the same Treason...
Page 88 - It seems as if the progress of public reformation was eating away the ground of the prosecution. Since the commencement of the prosecution, this part of the libel has unluckily received the sanction of the legislature. In that interval our Catholic brethren have obtained that admission, which it seems it was a libel to propose: in what way to account for this, I am really at a loss.
Page 531 - I do not think meanly of you. Had I thought so meanly of you, I could not suffer my mind to commune with you as it has done. Had I thought you that base and vile instrument, attuned by hope and by fear, into discord and falsehood, from whose vulgar string no groan of suffering could vibrate, no voice of integrity or honor could speak — let me honestly tell you, I should have scorned to fling my hand across it; I should have left it to a fitter minstrel.
Page 88 - If you think so, you must say to them, " you have demanded emancipation, and you have got it; but we abhor your persons, we are outraged at your success, and we will stigmatize, by a criminal prosecution, the adviser of that relief which you have obtained from the voice of your country.
Page v - I, AB, in the presence of God, do pledge myself to my country, that I will use all my abilities and influence in the attainment of an impartial and adequate representation of the Irish nation in Parliament...
Page 535 - Have you not marked how the human heart bowed to the supremacy of his power, in the undissembled homage of deferential horror ? How his glance, like the lightning of heaven, seemed to rive the body of the accused, and mark it for the grave, while his voice warned the devoted wretch of woe and...
Page 95 - ... with an eye that never winks, and a wing that never tires : crowned as she is with the spoils of every art, and 'decked with the wreath of every muse ; from the deep and scrutinizing researches of her...