The Speeches...delivered at the Bar, and on Various Public Occasions in Ireland and EnglandLongman, 1817 - 213 pages |
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... young a man could render , has , I hope , inspired me with the sentiments it ought ; but here , I do confess to you , I feel no ordinary sensation - here , where every object springs some new association , and the loveliest objects ...
... young a man could render , has , I hope , inspired me with the sentiments it ought ; but here , I do confess to you , I feel no ordinary sensation - here , where every object springs some new association , and the loveliest objects ...
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... young enthusiast , I am sure you would oppose him with " a sword in one hand , and a torch in the other ; " still I do ask , and ask with fearlessness , upon what single principle of policy or of justice , could the advocates for your ...
... young enthusiast , I am sure you would oppose him with " a sword in one hand , and a torch in the other ; " still I do ask , and ask with fearlessness , upon what single principle of policy or of justice , could the advocates for your ...
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... young DEMOSTHENES might have once been found , and HOMER , the disgrace and glory of his age , have sung neglected ! Have not other nations wit- nessed those things , and who shall say that nature has peculiarly degraded the intellect ...
... young DEMOSTHENES might have once been found , and HOMER , the disgrace and glory of his age , have sung neglected ! Have not other nations wit- nessed those things , and who shall say that nature has peculiarly degraded the intellect ...
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... Young american . IT is not with the vain hope of returning by words the kindnesses which have been literally showered on me during the short period of our acquaintance , that I now interrupt , for a moment , the flow of your festivity ...
... Young american . IT is not with the vain hope of returning by words the kindnesses which have been literally showered on me during the short period of our acquaintance , that I now interrupt , for a moment , the flow of your festivity ...
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... young America yet soar to be what Athens was ! Who shall say , when the Eu- ropean column shall have mouldered , and the night of barbarism obscured its very ruins , that that mighty continent may not emerge from the horizon , to rule ...
... young America yet soar to be what Athens was ! Who shall say , when the Eu- ropean column shall have mouldered , and the night of barbarism obscured its very ruins , that that mighty continent may not emerge from the horizon , to rule ...
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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...