Speeches of John Philpot Curran, Esq: With a Brief Sketch of the History of Ireland, Volume 1Print. and pub. by I. Riley, 1811 - Ireland |
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... prisoners of the Saxon nation , the captives of a remorseless tyranny ! -Our sentence is pronounced , our de- struction is inevitable ! —O frightful , excruciating thought ! -Liberty exchan- ged for servitude , beauty for deformity ...
... prisoners of the Saxon nation , the captives of a remorseless tyranny ! -Our sentence is pronounced , our de- struction is inevitable ! —O frightful , excruciating thought ! -Liberty exchan- ged for servitude , beauty for deformity ...
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... prisoner having declared himself ready for trial , the jury were called , elected , tried , and sworn . The case was opened by Mr. Attorney - General . My lords , and gentlemen of the jury . The prisoner , the Rev. William Jackson , a ...
... prisoner having declared himself ready for trial , the jury were called , elected , tried , and sworn . The case was opened by Mr. Attorney - General . My lords , and gentlemen of the jury . The prisoner , the Rev. William Jackson , a ...
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... prisoner was . He stands charged , in the first instance , with an intention of compassing the king's death ; to support that charge there are fourteen overt acts laid ; if any one of which is proved to your satisfaction , and is in its ...
... prisoner was . He stands charged , in the first instance , with an intention of compassing the king's death ; to support that charge there are fourteen overt acts laid ; if any one of which is proved to your satisfaction , and is in its ...
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... prisoner consulted with several others , to induce the governing powers of France to invade this king- dom , for the purpose of dethroning the king : the prisoner meeting , together with others , in such consultation , is an overt act ...
... prisoner consulted with several others , to induce the governing powers of France to invade this king- dom , for the purpose of dethroning the king : the prisoner meeting , together with others , in such consultation , is an overt act ...
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... prisoner at the bar ; whether he be guilty of either of these crimes , it is for you to determine upon your oaths . You are , on the one hand , to discharge your duty to your king and to your coun- try , and you are to take care upon ...
... prisoner at the bar ; whether he be guilty of either of these crimes , it is for you to determine upon your oaths . You are , on the one hand , to discharge your duty to your king and to your coun- try , and you are to take care upon ...
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Page 57 - In contempt of our said Lord the King, in open violation of the laws of this kingdom, to the evil and pernicious example of all others in the like case offending, and against the peace of our said Lord the King, his crown and dignity.
Page 339 - At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
Page 83 - It seems as if the progress of public information was eating away the ground of the prosecution. Since the commencement of the prosecution, this part of the libel has unluckily received the sanction of the legislature. In that interval our catholic brethren have obtained that admission, which it seems it was a libel...
Page 95 - ... venal sheriffs returned packed juries 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...
Page 239 - I speak not now of the public proclamation of informers, with a promise of secrecy and of extravagant reward ; I speak not of the fate of those horrid wretches who have been so often transferred from the table to the dock, and from the dock to the pillory ; I speak of what your own eyes have seen, day after day...
Page 238 - ... libellous and false. I tell you these are the questions, and I ask you, can you have the front to give the expected answer, in the face of a community who know the country as well as you do? Let me ask you, how...
Page 94 - 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...
Page 220 - ... told; it is then humanity has no ears, because humanity has no tongue. It is then the proud man scorns to speak, but like a physician baffled by the wayward excesses of a dying patient, retires indignantly from the bed of an unhappy wretch, whose ear is too fastidious to bear the sound of wholesome advice, whose palate is too debauched to bear the salutary bitter of the medicine that might redeem him; and therefore leaves him to the felonious piety of the slaves that talk to him of life, and...