The Speeches of Charles Phillips, Esq: Delivered at the Bar, and on Various Public Occasions in Ireland and England. To which is Added, a Letter to George IV. |
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... youth , consonant to genius , and consistent with an obvious and ready correction . To this description , we apprehend , may be reduced all the errors that have been imputed through a system of wide - spreading and unwearied criticism ...
... youth , consonant to genius , and consistent with an obvious and ready correction . To this description , we apprehend , may be reduced all the errors that have been imputed through a system of wide - spreading and unwearied criticism ...
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... and elegant , impressive and sincere ; and if we add the circumstance of his youth to his other external qualifications , none of his contemporaries in this voca- tion can pretend to an equal combination of these accidental xii PREFACE .
... and elegant , impressive and sincere ; and if we add the circumstance of his youth to his other external qualifications , none of his contemporaries in this voca- tion can pretend to an equal combination of these accidental xii PREFACE .
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... youth carries with it not only much excuse , but much promise of future im- provement ; and doubtless he will not neglect to apply the fruits of study and the lights of experience to each succeeding exertion . But his manner is his own ...
... youth carries with it not only much excuse , but much promise of future im- provement ; and doubtless he will not neglect to apply the fruits of study and the lights of experience to each succeeding exertion . But his manner is his own ...
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... youth , the friend of my adoption , though perhaps I am committing one of our imputed blunders , when I speak of introducing one whose patriotism has already rendered him familiar to every heart in Ireland ; a man , who , conquering ...
... youth , the friend of my adoption , though perhaps I am committing one of our imputed blunders , when I speak of introducing one whose patriotism has already rendered him familiar to every heart in Ireland ; a man , who , conquering ...
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... youth , and the associates of his heart , and all the fairy enchantments in which fancy may have wrapped him ? Alas ! for what ? Though genius flashed from his eye , and eloquence rolled from his lips : though he spoke with the tongue ...
... youth , and the associates of his heart , and all the fairy enchantments in which fancy may have wrapped him ? Alas ! for what ? Though genius flashed from his eye , and eloquence rolled from his lips : though he spoke with the tongue ...
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Page 181 - All the visions of antiquity became common places in his contemplation; kings were his people — nations were his outposts; and he disposed of courts, and crowns, and camps, and churches, and cabinets, as if they were the titular dignitaries of the chessboard! ."«• .•*. Amid all these changes he stood immutable as adamant. It mattered little whether in the field...
Page 203 - I denounce it in the name of the sovereignty of Massachusetts, which was stricken down by the blow. I denounce it in the name of humanity. I denounce it in the name of civilization which it outraged. I denounce it in the name of that fair play which bullies and prize-fighters respect.