Recollections of Curran, and Some of His ContemporariesW. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1822 - 403 páginas |
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... tion , but the simple , and , in some measure , the self - drawn picture of a man who was a great or- nament to the country in which it was his misfor- tune to be born . Before I proceed one step in my progress , the reader has a right ...
... tion , but the simple , and , in some measure , the self - drawn picture of a man who was a great or- nament to the country in which it was his misfor- tune to be born . Before I proceed one step in my progress , the reader has a right ...
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Charles Phillips. from the school at Middleton ; and that in addi- tion to this he profited considerably by his lite- rary exertions . To the magazines and the news- papers of the day no doubt he was a contributor ; and were it possible ...
Charles Phillips. from the school at Middleton ; and that in addi- tion to this he profited considerably by his lite- rary exertions . To the magazines and the news- papers of the day no doubt he was a contributor ; and were it possible ...
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... spirit of the highly born , than in the native integrity of the more humble aspirant ; but , above all , of that lofty and unbending patriotism that at once won the confidence and enforced the imita- tion of 24 RECOLLECTIONS OF CURRAN AND.
... spirit of the highly born , than in the native integrity of the more humble aspirant ; but , above all , of that lofty and unbending patriotism that at once won the confidence and enforced the imita- tion of 24 RECOLLECTIONS OF CURRAN AND.
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... tion ; and there not unfrequently there arose a genius from the very lowest of the people , who won his way to the distinctions of the senate , and wrested from pedigree the highest honours and offices of the constitution . It was a ...
... tion ; and there not unfrequently there arose a genius from the very lowest of the people , who won his way to the distinctions of the senate , and wrested from pedigree the highest honours and offices of the constitution . It was a ...
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... tion on the bench . In the year 1770 , and during the succeeding sessions , he had to encounter al- most alone an opposition headed by Mr. Flood , and composed of as much effective hostility as ever faced a Treasury bench . His powers ...
... tion on the bench . In the year 1770 , and during the succeeding sessions , he had to encounter al- most alone an opposition headed by Mr. Flood , and composed of as much effective hostility as ever faced a Treasury bench . His powers ...
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Página 178 - guage 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 what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down ; no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the God sink together in the dust...
Página 249 - OH! BREATHE NOT HIS NAME. OH ! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid : Sad, silent, and dark, be the tears that we shed, As the night-dew that falls on the grass o'er his head. But the night-dew that falls, though in silence it weeps, Shall brighten with verdure the grave where he sleeps ; And the tear that we shed, though in secret it...
Página 130 - Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Página 183 - Scotland — a nation cast in the happy medium between the spiritless acquiescence of submissive poverty, and the sturdy credulity of pampered wealth — cool and ardent — adventurous and persevering — winging her eagle flight against the blaze of every science, with an eye that never winks, and a wing that never tires...
Página 213 - For they that led us away captive, required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness : Sing us one of the songs of Sion. 4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?
Página 206 - I had almost said, of ordinary habitation ; you may see him flying by the conflagrations of his own dwelling; or you may find his bones bleaching on the green fields of his country ; or he may be found tossing upon the surface of the ocean, and mingling his groans with those tempests less savage than his persecutors that drift him to a returnless distance from his family and his home.
Página 209 - Have you not marked how the human heart bowed to the supremacy of his power, in the undissembled homage of deferential horror ? How his glance, like the lightning of heaven, seemed to rive the body of the accused, and mark it for the grave, while his voice warned the devoted wretch of woe and...
Página 48 - We spent them not in toys, or lust, or wine, But search of deep philosophy, Wit, eloquence, and poesy ; Arts which I loved ; for they, my friend, were thine.
Página 374 - Gentlemen, what horrid alternative in the treatment of wives would such reasoning recommend ? Are they to be immured by worse than eastern barbarity? Are their principles to be depraved, their passions sublimated, every finer motive of action extinguished by the inevitable consequences of thus treating them like slaves ? Or is a liberal and generous confidence in them to be the passport of the adulterer, and the justification of his crimes ? Honourably, but fatally for his own repose, he was neither...
Página 181 - ... to carry into effect those fatal conspiracies of the few against the many, when the devoted benches of public justice were filled by some of those foundlings of fortune, who, overwhelmed in the torrent of corruption at an early period, lay at the bottom like drowned bodies, while soundness or sanity remained in them ; but at length becoming buoyant by putrefaction, they rose as they rotted, and floated to the surface of the polluted stream, where they were drifted along, the objects of terror,...