Sketches of the Irish Bar, Volumen 2Redfield, 1854 - 388 páginas |
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... seemed to have some inherent and natural incompatibility with laughter , which the Momus of the bench could not remove . While peals rang upon peals of merriment , and men were obliged to hold their sides , lest they should burst with ...
... seemed to have some inherent and natural incompatibility with laughter , which the Momus of the bench could not remove . While peals rang upon peals of merriment , and men were obliged to hold their sides , lest they should burst with ...
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... seemed with its wintry murmurs to whisper to the old man a funeral admonition . He appeared , as he urged on his horse and tried to hurry from so dismal a scene , to shrink and huddle himself from the blast . In anti- cipation of an ...
... seemed with its wintry murmurs to whisper to the old man a funeral admonition . He appeared , as he urged on his horse and tried to hurry from so dismal a scene , to shrink and huddle himself from the blast . In anti- cipation of an ...
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... seemed to be surveying the gulf on the brink of which he stood , and presented , in his ghastly aspect and motionless demeanor , a reproof of the spirit of hilarity with which he was to be sent before his God ! It is not that there is ...
... seemed to be surveying the gulf on the brink of which he stood , and presented , in his ghastly aspect and motionless demeanor , a reproof of the spirit of hilarity with which he was to be sent before his God ! It is not that there is ...
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... seemed exceedingly anx- ious to impress upon the crowd that , though he was a stag , " it was not for gold that he had sold the cause . Life itself was the only bribe that could move his honor , and even the tempt- ation which the ...
... seemed exceedingly anx- ious to impress upon the crowd that , though he was a stag , " it was not for gold that he had sold the cause . Life itself was the only bribe that could move his honor , and even the tempt- ation which the ...
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... seemed to predominate . Suddenly , however , the chamber - door communicating with the room where the witnesses were kept was opened , and one of the most extraordinary figures that ever appeared in that strange theatre , an Irish court ...
... seemed to predominate . Suddenly , however , the chamber - door communicating with the room where the witnesses were kept was opened , and one of the most extraordinary figures that ever appeared in that strange theatre , an Irish court ...
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appeared Association Attorney-General Baron barrister became Bellew bench born Brougham called Catholic Emancipation cause Chancellor character Clare Cobbett Corofin counsel countenance court Dawson died Dublin Duke Earl effect election eloquence Emancipation eminent England English excited expression eyes Father Murphy favor feeling Fitzgerald freeholders gentleman Grey habits hand heard honor House of Commons Ireland Irish bar judge justice King's counsel landlord Leslie Foster liberal London look Lord Lyndhurst Lord Manners Lord Norbury Lordship Louis Perrin ment mind Ministry O'Connell O'Connell's observed occasion orator Parliament Parliamentary party passed Peel peerage person Plunket political popular pounds sterling present priest prisoners proceeded produced Protestant Protestant Ascendency recollection Reform remarkable Robert Harty Roman Catholic Rowan Saurin scene seemed Sergeant Sheil Sheriff Sir Edward Knatchbull Sir Francis Burdett speaker speech spirit stood thousand pounds sterling tion took trial utterance vote Whig Winchilsea
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Página 226 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed ! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat, but for promotion; And having that, do choke their service up Even with the having: it is not so with thee.
Página 71 - Ireland never thought of a radical cure, from overlooking the real cause of disease, which in fact lay in themselves, and not in the wretches they doomed to the gallows.
Página 167 - Why should not piety be made, As well as equity, a trade, And men get money by devotion, As well as making of a motion ? B...
Página 70 - Ireland; a long series of oppressions, aided by many very ill-judged laws, have brought landlords into a habit of exerting a very lofty superiority, and their vassals into that of an almost unlimited submission: speaking a language that is despised, professing a religion that is abhorred ()and being disarmed, the poor find themselves in many cases slaves even in the bosom of written liberty.
Página 67 - ... and, having taken the administration of justice into their own hands, were not very exact in the distribution of it.
Página 132 - 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.
Página 152 - In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm, In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home.
Página 15 - You do me honor overmuch. You have given to the subaltern all the credit of a superior. There are men engaged in this conspiracy who are not only superior to me, but even to your own conceptions of yourself, my lord; men, before the...
Página 309 - The rod of oppression is the wand of this enchanter, and the book of his spells is the penal code. Break the wand of this political Prospero, and take from him the volume of his magic, and he will evoke the spirits which are now under his control no longer. But why should I have recourse to illustration which may be accounted fantastical, in order to elucidate what is in itself so plain and obvious ? Protestant gentlemen, who do me the honour to listen to me, look, I pray you, a little dispassionately...
Página 292 - is the friend of Peel— -the bloody Perceval, and the candid and manly Mr. Peel — and he is our friend ! and he is everybody's friend ! The friend of the Catholic was the friend of the bloody Perceval, and is the friend of the candid and manly Mr.