The Speeches of Charles Phillips, Esq: Delivered at the Bar and on Various Public Occasions in Ireland and England |
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... least title to praise . Thus defects and detraction are as the spots and shadow which of necessity adhere and attach to every object of honourable toil . Were it possi- ble for the friends of Mr. Phillips to select those defects which ...
... least title to praise . Thus defects and detraction are as the spots and shadow which of necessity adhere and attach to every object of honourable toil . Were it possi- ble for the friends of Mr. Phillips to select those defects which ...
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... least to which the sticklers for estab- lishments can offer no objection . " Before I had written thus far , " says he , in his letter on the penal laws , " I heard of a scheme for giving to the Castle the patronage of the presiding ...
... least to which the sticklers for estab- lishments can offer no objection . " Before I had written thus far , " says he , in his letter on the penal laws , " I heard of a scheme for giving to the Castle the patronage of the presiding ...
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... least judgment on their merits so as to decide which of the popish priests is fit to be a bishop ? It cannot be . The idea is ridiculous . He will hand them over to Lords - Lieutenant of counties , justices of the peace , and others ...
... least judgment on their merits so as to decide which of the popish priests is fit to be a bishop ? It cannot be . The idea is ridiculous . He will hand them over to Lords - Lieutenant of counties , justices of the peace , and others ...
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... least to govern it with any happiness to itself , or advan- tage to its rulers . Centuries have proved its total inefficiency , and if it be continued for centuries , the proofs will be but multiplied . Why , however , should I blame ...
... least to govern it with any happiness to itself , or advan- tage to its rulers . Centuries have proved its total inefficiency , and if it be continued for centuries , the proofs will be but multiplied . Why , however , should I blame ...
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... least have shielded us from calumny . Let me hope that his absence shall be but of short duration , and that this city will earn an additional claim to the gra- titude of the country , by electing him her repre- sentative . I scarcely ...
... least have shielded us from calumny . Let me hope that his absence shall be but of short duration , and that this city will earn an additional claim to the gra- titude of the country , by electing him her repre- sentative . I scarcely ...
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Page 107 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar...
Page 201 - Corsica waving his imperial flag over her most ancient capitals. 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!
Page 151 - 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 119 - 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 41 - 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 151 - 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 198 - 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...
Page 40 - No people can claim, no country can appropriate him. The boon of Providence to the human race, his fame is eternity, and his residence creation. Though it was the defeat of our arms, and the disgrace of our policy, I almost bless the convulsion in which he had his origin. If the heavens thundered, and the earth rocked, yet, when the storm...
Page 201 - The victorious veteran glittered with his gains; and the capital, gorgeous with the spoils of art, became the miniature metropolis of the universe.
Page 40 - 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 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...