Sketches of the Irish Bar, Volumen 2Redfield, 1854 - 388 páginas |
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... sort of eminence , where perspicuity or erudition was requisite for success . But the qualifications for distinction , at the time when Lord Norbury was called , were essentially different from what they are at present . Endowed with ...
... sort of eminence , where perspicuity or erudition was requisite for success . But the qualifications for distinction , at the time when Lord Norbury was called , were essentially different from what they are at present . Endowed with ...
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... sort of sanguinary burletta , in which Lord Norbury , then Sergeant Toler , and Sir Boyle Roche , * of blundering memory , were their favorite performers . * Sir Boyle Roche was an Irish Baronet , who had a seat in Parliament , and was ...
... sort of sanguinary burletta , in which Lord Norbury , then Sergeant Toler , and Sir Boyle Roche , * of blundering memory , were their favorite performers . * Sir Boyle Roche was an Irish Baronet , who had a seat in Parliament , and was ...
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... sort of spurious respectability . In the manifesta- tions of that spirit , which had become habitual , he has perse- vered to the last ; and even since he has been a Chief - Justice has betrayed his original tendency to settle matters ...
... sort of spurious respectability . In the manifesta- tions of that spirit , which had become habitual , he has perse- vered to the last ; and even since he has been a Chief - Justice has betrayed his original tendency to settle matters ...
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... sort of san- guinary " fee , fa , fum ! " while the dilation of his nostrils , and the fierceness of his look , expressed , if I may so say , the scent of a traitor's blood . * In his moments of excitation ( and he is * It may seem ...
... sort of san- guinary " fee , fa , fum ! " while the dilation of his nostrils , and the fierceness of his look , expressed , if I may so say , the scent of a traitor's blood . * In his moments of excitation ( and he is * It may seem ...
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... sort of animal courage , or insensibility to danger , but was innocent of the gallant delight " Which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel . " He was nearly as broad as he was long , with a large and rubicund face ; small and ...
... sort of animal courage , or insensibility to danger , but was innocent of the gallant delight " Which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel . " He was nearly as broad as he was long , with a large and rubicund face ; small and ...
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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.