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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... object of honourable toil . Were it possible for the friends of Mr. Phillips to select those defects which could fill up the measure of unavoidable imperfection , and at the same time inflict least injury on his reputation , doubtless ...
... object of honourable toil . Were it possible for the friends of Mr. Phillips to select those defects which could fill up the measure of unavoidable imperfection , and at the same time inflict least injury on his reputation , doubtless ...
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... object springs some new association , and the loveliest objects , mellowed as they are by time , rise painted on the eye of memory - here , where the light of heaven first blessed my infant view , and nature breathed into my infant ...
... object springs some new association , and the loveliest objects , mellowed as they are by time , rise painted on the eye of memory - here , where the light of heaven first blessed my infant view , and nature breathed into my infant ...
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... objects of preferment ; and then I run no risk in fore- telling , that whatever order , quiet , and morality you have in the country , will be lost . " Now , let me ask you , is it to such characters as those described by Burke , that ...
... objects of preferment ; and then I run no risk in fore- telling , that whatever order , quiet , and morality you have in the country , will be lost . " Now , let me ask you , is it to such characters as those described by Burke , that ...
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... object but the hap- piness of man , no bounds but the extremities of creation . Yes , yes , it was reserved for Wellington to redeem his own country when he was regenerating every other . It was reserved for him to show how vile were ...
... object but the hap- piness of man , no bounds but the extremities of creation . Yes , yes , it was reserved for Wellington to redeem his own country when he was regenerating every other . It was reserved for him to show how vile were ...
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... objects visible in its refulgence . You lived for centuries on the vegetable diet and eloquent silence of this Pythagorean policy ; and the conse- quence was , when you thought yourselves mightily dignified , and mightily interesting ...
... objects visible in its refulgence . You lived for centuries on the vegetable diet and eloquent silence of this Pythagorean policy ; and the conse- quence was , when you thought yourselves mightily dignified , and mightily interesting ...
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act of navigation affection aldermen amongst argument Attorney-general bill bill of attainder blessed blood Britain British called calumny Catholic cause character charge client common consider constitution court crime criminal crown Curran death defendant degraded doubt Dublin duty eloquence enemies England evidence fact feel Gentlemen give Grattan guilt happiness heard heart heaven high treason hope house of commons human innocence Ireland Irish Irishman jury justice king land libel liberty lord lieutenant mean ment mercy mind minister misery moral nation nature never noble oath object odious offence Oliver Bond parents parliament peace pension perhaps perjury person plaintiff principle prosecution protection punishment question racter reason religion right honourable riot act ruin sacred SPEECH spirit statute suffer suppose tell tion tithe trial united Irishmen verdict victim virtue William Orr witness wretched
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Page 111 - So dear to Heaven is saintly Chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision
Page 111 - converse with heavenly habitants Begins to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal!
Page 271 - that is the breach of hospitality. To us peculiarly*? does it belong to avenge the violation of its altar. The hospitality of other countries is a matter of necessity or convention, in savage nations of the first, in polished, of the latter; but the\ hospitality of an Irishman is not the running account of posted and
Page 195 - What are the processions of the learned counsel himself, circuit after circuit ? Merciful God! what is the state of Ireland, and where shall you find the wretched inhabitant of this land ? You may find him perhaps in gaol, the only place of security, I had almost said, of ordinary habitation; you may see
Page 170 - year of the king, at Mountrath street aforesaid, city of Dublin aforesaid, falsely, wickedly, maliciously, and seditiously, did print and publish, and cause and procure to be printed and published, in a certain newspaper entitled ' the press,' a certain false, wicked, malicious, and seditious libel, of and concerning the said trial, conviction, attainder, and execution of the said William Orr.