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 BarJames Harper ... and Richard Milliken ... Dublin., 1817 - 315 páginas |
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... could not be liars : therefore Epimenides was a liar : therefore all the Cretans could not be liars , et sic de cæteris . Nor was it in those debating societies , which seem 9 he afterwards became the boast, the honour, and ...
... could not be liars : therefore Epimenides was a liar : therefore all the Cretans could not be liars , et sic de cæteris . Nor was it in those debating societies , which seem 9 he afterwards became the boast, the honour, and ...
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... seem to be modelled from the early sophists , that he fed the lamp of his youthful mind . He found within himself the happy power of giving shapes and exquisite forms to the beings of his own creation . Whether passing from images of ...
... seem to be modelled from the early sophists , that he fed the lamp of his youthful mind . He found within himself the happy power of giving shapes and exquisite forms to the beings of his own creation . Whether passing from images of ...
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... seem to begin at the wrong end of education , and your logic , sciences , and classics and lan- guages , seem to me to be but half learned , if I am to judge by the specimens you afford . " — " What ! " said the Doctor hastily , " will ...
... seem to begin at the wrong end of education , and your logic , sciences , and classics and lan- guages , seem to me to be but half learned , if I am to judge by the specimens you afford . " — " What ! " said the Doctor hastily , " will ...
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... 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 Kibel has unluckily received the sanction of the legislature . In that interval ...
... 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 Kibel has unluckily received the sanction of the legislature . In that interval ...
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... seems , and happy for them that it should , enables them to remove from their sight the victim of their infatuation . The more merciful spirit of our law deprives you of that consolation ; his sufferings must remain for ever before our ...
... seems , and happy for them that it should , enables them to remove from their sight the victim of their infatuation . The more merciful spirit of our law deprives you of that consolation ; his sufferings must remain for ever before our ...
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admiration advocate affected anecdote appeared asked barrister beautiful called Catholics character Charles Massy Cicero Clare client Clonmell common conceived court defence delight Demosthenes Doctor Dublin eloquence eminent England Epimenides equal fame feel fire fortune frequently genius gentleman George Ponsonby give Grattan ground Gylippus heard heart honour hope human humour Ireland Irish John Horne Tooke JOHN PHILPOT CURRAN judge judgement jury justice labour ladies Lantern Fly late lawyer learned liberty look Lord Avonmore Lord Chancellor Lord Moira ment mind moral nation nature never noble object observed occasion opinion orator parliament pass passion patriotism perceived perhaps person plaintiff Plutarch political Ponsonby praise principles profession Pytheas racter Rathfarnham Reynolds shew speak speeches spirit suffered supposed talents taste thing thought tion told trial truth United Irishmen verdict virtue wish words
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...