Irish Eloquence: The Speeches of the Celebrated Irish Orators: Phillips, Curran and Grattan, to which is Added the Powerful Appeal of Robert Emmett, at the Close of His Trial for High Treason |
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... feel , who audience ? However , it would in me , were I to conceal from am agitated by this kindness . nother ... feels , and willing is the not , by shaping it to my rudely sibility of a gratitude too full ) too eloquent for language ...
... feel , who audience ? However , it would in me , were I to conceal from am agitated by this kindness . nother ... feels , and willing is the not , by shaping it to my rudely sibility of a gratitude too full ) too eloquent for language ...
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... feel my liberties interwoven , and the best affections of my heart as it were enfibred with those of my Catholic countrymen ; and as a PROTESTANT , convinced of the purity of my own faith , would I not debase it by postponing the powers ...
... feel my liberties interwoven , and the best affections of my heart as it were enfibred with those of my Catholic countrymen ; and as a PROTESTANT , convinced of the purity of my own faith , would I not debase it by postponing the powers ...
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... feel , who never before addressed a public audience ? However , it would be but an unworthy affectation in me , were I to conceal from you , the emotions with which I am agitated by this kindness . The exaggerated estimate which other ...
... feel , who never before addressed a public audience ? However , it would be but an unworthy affectation in me , were I to conceal from you , the emotions with which I am agitated by this kindness . The exaggerated estimate which other ...
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... feel my liberties interwoven , and the best affections of my heart as it were enfibred with those of my Catholic countrymen ; and as a PROTESTANT , convinced of the purity of my own faith , would I not debase it by postponing the powers ...
... feel my liberties interwoven , and the best affections of my heart as it were enfibred with those of my Catholic countrymen ; and as a PROTESTANT , convinced of the purity of my own faith , would I not debase it by postponing the powers ...
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... feel ; when she moves , it is in wrath ; when she pauses , it is amid ruin ; her prayers are curses , her communion is death , her vengeance is eternity , her decalogue is written in the blood of her victims ; and if she stoops for a ...
... feel ; when she moves , it is in wrath ; when she pauses , it is amid ruin ; her prayers are curses , her communion is death , her vengeance is eternity , her decalogue is written in the blood of her victims ; and if she stoops for a ...
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Page 67 - No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced ; — no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him ; — no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down ; — 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...
Page 67 - I put it to your oaths, do you think that a blessing of that kind, that a victory obtained by justice over bigotry and oppression, should have a stigma cast upon it by an ignominious sentence upon men bold and honest enough to propose that measure...
Page 67 - I speak in the spirit of the British law, which makes liberty commensurate with, and inseparable from, British soil ; which proclaims even to the stranger and the sojourner, the moment he sets his foot upon British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation.
Page 66 - 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. Have any alarms been occasioned by the emancipation of our Catholic brethren ? has the bigoted malignity of any individuals been crushed ? or has the stability of the government, or...
Page 102 - Such a medley of contradictions, and, at the same time, such an individual consistency, were never united in the same character. A royalist, a republican, and an emperor; a Mohammedan, a Catholic...
Page 75 - I will tell you, gentlemen, what they are saved from, and what the government is saved from. I will tell you also to what both are exposed by shutting up that communication. In one case, sedition speaks aloud, and walks abroad. The demagogue...
Page 324 - I have no doubt; but where is the boasted freedom of your institutions, where is the vaunted impartiality, clemency, and mildness of your courts of justice, if an unfortunate prisoner, whom your policy, and not justice, is about to deliver into the hands of the executioner, is not suffered to explain his motives sincerely and truly, and to vindicate the principles by which he was actuated?
Page 83 - ... your verdict will send him home to the arms of his family, and the wishes of his country. But if, which heaven forbid, it hath still been unfortunately determined, that because he has not bent to power and authority, because he would not bow down before the golden calf and worship it, he is to be bound and cast into the furnace ; I do trust in God, that there is a redeeming spirit in the constitution, which will be seen to walk 2 U 26* with the sufferer through the flames, and to preserve him...
Page 55 - The glorious, pious and immortal memory of the great and good King William — not forgetting Oliver Cromwell, who assisted in redeeming us from Popery, slavery, arbitrary power, brass money and wooden shoes.
Page 77 - Humes, 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...