The Speeches of Charles Phillips, Esq., Delivered at the Bar, and on Various Public Occasions in Ireland and England |
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... light of heaven first blessed my infant view , and nature breathed into my infant heart that ardour for my country which B こ nothing but death can chill - here , where the SPEECH delivered at a Public Dinner given to Mr Fin- lay by the ...
... light of heaven first blessed my infant view , and nature breathed into my infant heart that ardour for my country which B こ nothing but death can chill - here , where the SPEECH delivered at a Public Dinner given to Mr Fin- lay by the ...
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... light ! Thus have the terrors of the VATICAN retreated ; thus has that cloud which hovered o'er your cause brighten- ed at once into a sign of your faith and an assurance of your victory .-- Another obstacle , the omnipotence of FRANCE ...
... light ! Thus have the terrors of the VATICAN retreated ; thus has that cloud which hovered o'er your cause brighten- ed at once into a sign of your faith and an assurance of your victory .-- Another obstacle , the omnipotence of FRANCE ...
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... light . But , Father , we have heard that there are times when its rays vanish and leave your sphere in darkness , or when your only lustre arises from meteors of fire , and moons of blood ; we have heard of the verdant island which the ...
... light . But , Father , we have heard that there are times when its rays vanish and leave your sphere in darkness , or when your only lustre arises from meteors of fire , and moons of blood ; we have heard of the verdant island which the ...
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... light of our achieve- ments only live in song ; philosophy will rise again in the sky of her Franklin , and glory re- kindle at the urn of her Washington . Is this the vision of a romantic fancy ? Is it even improbable ? Is it half so ...
... light of our achieve- ments only live in song ; philosophy will rise again in the sky of her Franklin , and glory re- kindle at the urn of her Washington . Is this the vision of a romantic fancy ? Is it even improbable ? Is it half so ...
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... light , and poor Fox regularly put his head out of the window , with this question , " Gen- tlemen , are you Fox - hunting or Hare - hunting this morning ? " His pleasantry mitigated the very Jews . " Well , well , Fox , now you have ...
... light , and poor Fox regularly put his head out of the window , with this question , " Gen- tlemen , are you Fox - hunting or Hare - hunting this morning ? " His pleasantry mitigated the very Jews . " Well , well , Fox , now you have ...
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Page 96 - 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 108 - 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 188 - 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 186 - But if his fortune was great, his genius was transcendent ; decision flashed upon his councils ; and it was the same to decide and to perform. To inferior intellects his combinations appeared perfectly impossible, his plans perfectly impracticable, ; but, in his hands, simplicity marked their development and success vindicated their adoption.
Page 45 - Liberty unsheathed his sword, necessity stained, victory returned it. If he had paused here, history might have doubted what station to assign him, whether at the head of her citizens or her soldiers, 'her heroes or her patriots. But the last glorious act crowns his career, and banishes all hesitation. Who, like Washington, after having emancipated...
Page 45 - ... perfection of every master. As a general he marshalled the 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 sage.
Page 185 - ... not promulgate ; in the hope of a dynasty, he upheld the crescent ; for the sake of a divorce, he bowed before the cross : the orphan of St. Louis, he became the adopted child of the republic...
Page 139 - 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; 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 41 - Who can deny that its gigantic advancement offers a field for the most rational conjecture ! At the end of the very next century, if she proceeds as she seems to promise, what a wondrous spectacle may she not exhibit ! Who shall say for what purpose mysterious Providence may not have designed her ! Who shall say that when in its follies or its crimes the old world may...
Page 44 - Caesar was merciful, Scipio was continent, Hannibal was patient; but it was reserved for Washington to blend them all in one, and, like the lovely masterpiece of the Grecian artist, to exhibit, in one glow of associated beauty, the pride of every model and the perfection of every master.