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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... witness the sincerity of his declarations ; by all the vows which should for ever rivet the honourable , and could not fail to convince even the incredulous , he promised her marriage ; over and over again he invoked the eternal ...
... witness the sincerity of his declarations ; by all the vows which should for ever rivet the honourable , and could not fail to convince even the incredulous , he promised her marriage ; over and over again he invoked the eternal ...
Page 115
... witness he considered her as his wife , and her character as dear to him as that of one of his sisters ; he affected mortification at any suspicion of his purity ; he told her if she refused her confidence to his honourable affec- tion ...
... witness he considered her as his wife , and her character as dear to him as that of one of his sisters ; he affected mortification at any suspicion of his purity ; he told her if she refused her confidence to his honourable affec- tion ...
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... witnesses suborned ? Let his army of Counsel sift and torture them . Can they prove it ? Oh yes , if it be provable . Let them produce her brother - in our hands , a damning proof to be sure ; but then , frightful , afflicting , un ...
... witnesses suborned ? Let his army of Counsel sift and torture them . Can they prove it ? Oh yes , if it be provable . Let them produce her brother - in our hands , a damning proof to be sure ; but then , frightful , afflicting , un ...
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... witnesses , nor ought they . Our Queen , has been , before this , twice assailed , and assailed on the same charges . Adultery , nay , pregnancy , was positively sworn to , one of the ornaments of our navy , captain Manby , and one of ...
... witnesses , nor ought they . Our Queen , has been , before this , twice assailed , and assailed on the same charges . Adultery , nay , pregnancy , was positively sworn to , one of the ornaments of our navy , captain Manby , and one of ...
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... witness he is unequalled . The most intricate web that fraud , malice , or corruption ever wove against the life , fortune , or character of an individual , he can unravel . Let truth and falsehood be ever so ingeniously dove- tailed ...
... witness he is unequalled . The most intricate web that fraud , malice , or corruption ever wove against the life , fortune , or character of an individual , he can unravel . Let truth and falsehood be ever so ingeniously dove- tailed ...
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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...