Irish Eloquence: The Speeches of the Celebrated Irish Orators, Philips, 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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... forces its way with the fire and the precision of the morning sun - beam . Vapours may impede the infancy of its progress . but the very resistance that would check only condenses and concentrates it , until at length it goes forth in ...
... forces its way with the fire and the precision of the morning sun - beam . Vapours may impede the infancy of its progress . but the very resistance that would check only condenses and concentrates it , until at length it goes forth in ...
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... force itself incidentally upon me , I will say , that as on the one hand , I cannot fancy a despotism more impious , or more inhuman , than the political abasement here , on account of that faith by which men hope to win a happy ...
... force itself incidentally upon me , I will say , that as on the one hand , I cannot fancy a despotism more impious , or more inhuman , than the political abasement here , on account of that faith by which men hope to win a happy ...
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... force what he has achieved by fraud , his life would have been the forfeit ; and yet how trifling in comparison would have been the parent's agony ! He has no right , then , to complain , if you should estimate this outrage at the price ...
... force what he has achieved by fraud , his life would have been the forfeit ; and yet how trifling in comparison would have been the parent's agony ! He has no right , then , to complain , if you should estimate this outrage at the price ...
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... forces , and to the noble and learned head of this Court , both of whom received him with a sympathy that did them honour , Mr. Town- send sent a brother officer to inform her she must quit his re- sidence and take lodgings . In vain ...
... forces , and to the noble and learned head of this Court , both of whom received him with a sympathy that did them honour , Mr. Town- send sent a brother officer to inform her she must quit his re- sidence and take lodgings . In vain ...
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... force , of pro- fanation , of despair , of death . So it is in the question before us . If any man shall hear of this day's transaction , he cannot be so foolish as to suppose that we have been confined to a single character , like ...
... force , of pro- fanation , of despair , of death . So it is in the question before us . If any man shall hear of this day's transaction , he cannot be so foolish as to suppose that we have been confined to a single character , like ...
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