The Speeches...delivered at the Bar, and on Various Public Occasions in Ireland and EnglandLongman, 1817 - 213 pages |
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... look is eloquence , their smile is love , their retort is wit , their remark is wisdom - not a wisdom borrowed from the dead , but that with which nature has " herself inspired them ; an acute observance of the passing 14 SPEECH.
... look is eloquence , their smile is love , their retort is wit , their remark is wisdom - not a wisdom borrowed from the dead , but that with which nature has " herself inspired them ; an acute observance of the passing 14 SPEECH.
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... Look to Protestant Ireland , shooting over the empire those rays of genius , and those thunderbolts of war , that have at once embellished and preserved it . I speak not of a former era . I refer not for my example to the day just ...
... Look to Protestant Ireland , shooting over the empire those rays of genius , and those thunderbolts of war , that have at once embellished and preserved it . I speak not of a former era . I refer not for my example to the day just ...
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... look for instances of every crime and every virtue , holds not in its page of wonders a more sublime phenomenon than that calumniated pontiff . Placed at the very pinnacle of human elevation , surrounded by the pomp of the Vatican and ...
... look for instances of every crime and every virtue , holds not in its page of wonders a more sublime phenomenon than that calumniated pontiff . Placed at the very pinnacle of human elevation , surrounded by the pomp of the Vatican and ...
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... looks like bullying us ! " Very well next comes the peace , and what say our friends the Opposition ? " Oh ! I declare peace is no time , it looks so like persuading us . " For my part , serious as the subject is , it affects me with ...
... looks like bullying us ! " Very well next comes the peace , and what say our friends the Opposition ? " Oh ! I declare peace is no time , it looks so like persuading us . " For my part , serious as the subject is , it affects me with ...
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... look but peace , no wealth but piety ; her creed comprehensive as the arch of heaven , and her charities bounded but by the circle of creation ? Or , has she been let loose amongst us , in form a fury , and in act a demon , her heart ...
... look but peace , no wealth but piety ; her creed comprehensive as the arch of heaven , and her charities bounded but by the circle of creation ? Or , has she been let loose amongst us , in form a fury , and in act a demon , her heart ...
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Page 109 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown...
Page 153 - ... her, driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, and, in clear dream and solemn vision, tell her of things that no gross ear can hear; till oft converse with heavenly habitants begin 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 153 - 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 Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear...
Page 121 - 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 203 - The victorious veteran glittered with his gains; and the capital, gorgeous with the spoils of art, became the miniature metropolis of the universe.
Page 43 - But the last glorious act crowns his career, and banishes all hesitation. Who, like Washington, after having emancipated an hemisphere, resigned its crown, and preferred the retirement of domestic life to the adoration of a land he might be almost said to have created! " How shall we rank thee upon Glory's page, Thou more than soldier and just less than sage ; All thou hast been reflects less fame on thee, Far less than all thou hast forborne to be...
Page 201 - Flung into life in the midst of a revolution that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledged no superior, he commenced his course a stranger by birth, and a scholar by charity! With no friend but his sword, and no fortune but his talents, he rushed into the lists where rank and wealth and genius had arrayed themselves; and competition fled from him as from the glance of destiny. He knew no motive...
Page 43 - Grecian artist, to exhibit in one glow of associated beauty, the pride of every model, and the perfection of every master. As a General, he marshalled the • i peasant into a veteran, and supplied by discipline the absence of experience ; as a statesman, he enlarged the policy of the cabinet into the most comprehensive system of general advantage ; and such was the wisdom of his views, and the philosophy of his counsels, that to the soldier and the statesman he almost added the character of the...
Page 39 - World may have interred all the pride of its power, and all the pomp of its civilization, human nature may not find its destined renovation in the New ? For myself, I have no doubt of it.
Page 200 - Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon .the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his own originality. A mind, bold, independent, and decisive — a will, despotic in its dictates — an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of this extraordinary...
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Speeches...delivered at the Bar, and on Various Public Occasions in Ireland and England |
| Author | Charles Phillips |
| Publisher | Longman, 1817 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 20 Dec 2007 |
| Length | 213 pages |
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