Recollections of Curran and Some of His ContemporariesC. Wiley & Company, 1818 - 340 páginas |
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... afterwards in his professional circuit , the hearer , who stood entranced at an eloquence that seemed to flow from the very fount of inspiration , would see him suddenly , with some village witness , assume the vul- 35.
... afterwards in his professional circuit , the hearer , who stood entranced at an eloquence that seemed to flow from the very fount of inspiration , would see him suddenly , with some village witness , assume the vul- 35.
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Charles Phillips. suddenly , with some village witness , assume the vul- gar air and attitude and accent , until his familiarity wheedled the confession which his ingenuity never could have extorted . Various were the anecdotes with ...
Charles Phillips. suddenly , with some village witness , assume the vul- gar air and attitude and accent , until his familiarity wheedled the confession which his ingenuity never could have extorted . Various were the anecdotes with ...
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... witness in the , no matter how excited , ridicule of the audience . To a witness of the name of Halfpenny he once began , " Halfpenny , I see you ' re a rap , and for that reason you shall be nailed to the counter . " " Halfpenny is ...
... witness in the , no matter how excited , ridicule of the audience . To a witness of the name of Halfpenny he once began , " Halfpenny , I see you ' re a rap , and for that reason you shall be nailed to the counter . " " Halfpenny is ...
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... witness be- fore a Judge who could not comprehend any jest which was not written in black letter . Before he said a single word the witness began to laugh . " What are you laughing at , friend - what are you laughing at ? Let me tell ...
... witness be- fore a Judge who could not comprehend any jest which was not written in black letter . Before he said a single word the witness began to laugh . " What are you laughing at , friend - what are you laughing at ? Let me tell ...
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... witnesses off their centre , and he took care they seldom should recover it . " My lard --- my lard " -vociferated a peasant witness , writhing under this mental excruciation- " My lard - my lard - I can't answer yon little gentleman ...
... witnesses off their centre , and he took care they seldom should recover it . " My lard --- my lard " -vociferated a peasant witness , writhing under this mental excruciation- " My lard - my lard - I can't answer yon little gentleman ...
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Página 118 - 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 65 - Cimon ; on the anticipated christianity of Socrates ; on the gallant and pathetic patriotism of Epaminondas ; on that pure austerity of Fabricius, whom to move from his integrity would have been more difficult than to have pushed the sun from his course. I would add, that if he had seemed to hesitate, it was but for a moment : that his hesitation was like the passing cloud...
Página 184 - ... death, and the supreme arbiter of both ? Have you not marked when he entered, how the stormy wave of the multitude retired at his approach ? Have...
Página 330 - ... do not strike him into that most dreadful of all human conditions, the orphanage that springs not from the grave, that falls not from the hand of Providence or the stroke of death, but comes before its time, anticipated and inflicted by the remorseless cruelty of parental guilt.
Página 60 - Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se quam quod ridiculos homines facit. "Exeat...
Página 184 - ... councils of this government are holden over these catacombs of living death, where the wretch that is buried a man, lies till his heart has time to fester and dissolve, and is then dug up a witness.
Página 160 - If you doubt of the horrid consequences of suppressing the effusion even of individual discontent, look to those enslaved countries where the protection of despotism is supposed to be secured by such restraints. Even the person of the despot there is never in safety. Neither the fears of the despot, nor the machinations of the slave have any slumber, the one anticipating the moment of peril, the other watching the opportunity of aggression. The fatal crisis is equally a surprise upon both ; the decisive...
Página 155 - Mr. attorney-general has thought proper to direct your attention to the state and circumstances of public affairs at the time of this transaction ; let me also make a few retrospective observations on a period, at which he has but slightly glanced ; I speak of the events which took place before the close of the American war. You know, gentlemen, that France had espoused the cause of America, and we became thereby engaged in a war with that nation. Heu nescia mens hominum futuri!
Página 160 - ... 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,...
Página 277 - ... if need be, the escape of those who are more immediately engaged. They are all, provided the fact be committed, in the eye of the law present at it ; for it...