Curran and his contemporariesW. Blackwood, 1857 - 595 páginas |
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... jury : " Gentlemen , I entreat of you not to ruin this young man by a vindictive verdict ; for , though he has talents , and is in the church , he may rise ! " His mother , too patriotic not to have a large family , was of course too ...
... jury : " Gentlemen , I entreat of you not to ruin this young man by a vindictive verdict ; for , though he has talents , and is in the church , he may rise ! " His mother , too patriotic not to have a large family , was of course too ...
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... jury to sympathise with his client , he at all events left a picture of his adversary behind him , which survived and embittered the advantages of victory . Nor was his eloquence his only weapon : at cross- examination — the most ...
... jury to sympathise with his client , he at all events left a picture of his adversary behind him , which survived and embittered the advantages of victory . Nor was his eloquence his only weapon : at cross- examination — the most ...
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... jury on one of the state trials in 1803 with his usual animation . The judge , whose political bias , if any judge can have one , was cer- tainly supposed not to be favourable to the prisoner , CURRAN'S BON - MOTS . 63 '
... jury on one of the state trials in 1803 with his usual animation . The judge , whose political bias , if any judge can have one , was cer- tainly supposed not to be favourable to the prisoner , CURRAN'S BON - MOTS . 63 '
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... jury of Dublin shopkeepers , so stupid and so illiterate that the finest flights of his eloquence were lost on them . " I remember , gentlemen , " said he , stealing a side - glance at the unconscious and attentive Lord Avonmore , " I ...
... jury of Dublin shopkeepers , so stupid and so illiterate that the finest flights of his eloquence were lost on them . " I remember , gentlemen , " said he , stealing a side - glance at the unconscious and attentive Lord Avonmore , " I ...
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... jury , and I'll be bound they'll- find it Greek . " The joke flashed upon the simplicity of Lord Avonmore - he literally shook with laughter ; and that the whole picture might preserve its keeping , Curran declared he extended his ...
... jury , and I'll be bound they'll- find it Greek . " The joke flashed upon the simplicity of Lord Avonmore - he literally shook with laughter ; and that the whole picture might preserve its keeping , Curran declared he extended his ...
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addressed affection afterwards amongst Attorney-General barrister bench called character Chief-Justice Clonmel Cockaigne counsel Court crime Crown Curran death defence doubt Dublin Duke duty eloquence Emmett enemies England feel Flood Foolscap fortune genius gentlemen give Government Grattan guilt hand heard heart honour hope House of Commons human Ireland Irish judge jury justice Keith Johnston lady learned liberty Lord Avonmore Lord Castlereagh Lord Edward Fitzgerald Lord Kilwarden Lord Mansfield Lord Plunket Lord Townsend memory ment mind minister nation nature never noble Norbury O'Connell occasion Octavo opinion Parliament passed patriot perhaps person Peter Burrowes Plunket political poor principles prisoner prosecution question recollection respect Roman Catholic scarcely scene seems sketch speech spirit suffer suppose talents tell thought tion told Tone trial Union United Irishmen verdict vote witness words wretched
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Página 4 - When I remember all The friends so linked together, I've seen around me fall Like leaves in wintry weather; I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed...
Página 285 - I am going to my cold and silent grave ; my lamp of life is nearly extinguished ; my race is run ; the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom ! I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world ; it is the charity of its silence ! Let no man write my epitaph ; for, as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them.
Página 282 - I have always understood it to be the duty of a judge, when a prisoner has been convicted, to pronounce the sentence of the law. I have also understood that judges sometimes think it their duty to hear with patience and to speak with humanity...
Página 119 - Upon the whole, there was in this man something that could create, subvert, or reform ; an understanding, a spirit, and an eloquence, to summon mankind to society, or to break the bonds of slavery asunder, and to rule the wilderness of free minds with unbounded authority ; something that could establish or overwhelm empire, and strike a blow in the world that should resound through the universe.
Página 118 - England — his ambition was fame. Without dividing, he destroyed party ; without corrupting, he made a venal age unanimous. France sunk beneath him. With one hand he smote the house of Bourbon, and wielded in the other the democracy of England.
Página 280 - I should leave as a last charge to my countrymen to accomplish; because I should feel conscious that life, any more than death, is unprofitable when a foreign nation holds my country in subjection. But...
Página 164 - I speak in the spirit of the British law, which makes liberty commensurate with and inseparable from British soil; which proclaims even to the stranger and the sojourner, the moment he sets his foot upon British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation. No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him; no matter in...
Página 118 - The ordinary feelings which make life amiable and indolent, were unknown to him. No domestic difficulties, no domestic weakness, reached him ; but, aloof from the 'sordid occurrences of life, and unsullied by its intercourse, he came occasionally into our system, to counsel and to decide.
Página 165 - ... and the wishes of his country. But if, which heaven forbid, it hath still been unfortunately determined, that because he has not bent to power and authority, because he would not bow down before the golden calf and worship it, he is to be bound and cast into the furnace; I do trust in God, that there is a redeeming spirit in the constitution, which will be seen to walk with the sufferer through the flames, and to preserve him unhurt by the conflagration.
Página 282 - ... by which he was actuated in the crime of which he was adjudged guilty. That a judge has thought it his duty so to have done, I have no doubt; but where is the boasted freedom of your institutions...