Memoirs of the Legal, Literary, and Political Life of the Late the Right Honourable John Philpot Curran, Once Master of the Rolls in Ireland:: Comprising Copious Anecdotes of His Wit and Humour; and a Selection of His Poetry. : Interspersed with Occasional Biography of His Distinguished Contemporaries in the Senate and at the BarJames Harper ... and Richard Milliken ... Dublin., 1817 - 315 pàgines |
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Pàgina vii
... observed , that to translate from one language into another was like turning the seamy side of a vestment inside out , How discouraging the admonition , how hum- bling the analogy , when one considers how much is lost by the medium ...
... observed , that to translate from one language into another was like turning the seamy side of a vestment inside out , How discouraging the admonition , how hum- bling the analogy , when one considers how much is lost by the medium ...
Pàgina ix
... observations which arise out of , and apply to , the present subject . He says , “ it is altogether as equitable some account should be given of those who have distinguished themselves by their writings , as of those who are renowned ...
... observations which arise out of , and apply to , the present subject . He says , “ it is altogether as equitable some account should be given of those who have distinguished themselves by their writings , as of those who are renowned ...
Pàgina 11
... observation , that the records of such times are scanty and scarcely worth noticing , or if preserved , not worthy of attention . There exists a parody by Mr. Curran , of the Seven Ages of Shakespear ; some part of the order there ...
... observation , that the records of such times are scanty and scarcely worth noticing , or if preserved , not worthy of attention . There exists a parody by Mr. Curran , of the Seven Ages of Shakespear ; some part of the order there ...
Pàgina 13
... observed on the black ground of Mr. Curran's napless and unbrushed coat ; Mr. Egan , a good - natured friend , quickly pointed to the distress , and asked Mr. Curran Cujum pecus ? Mr. C. looking at Egan , archly replied , " Non meus ...
... observed on the black ground of Mr. Curran's napless and unbrushed coat ; Mr. Egan , a good - natured friend , quickly pointed to the distress , and asked Mr. Curran Cujum pecus ? Mr. C. looking at Egan , archly replied , " Non meus ...
Pàgina 14
... observed , that the story was not the worse for being enlarged , that it was an excellent story , and had the merit of proceeding like Fame ; — " Nam vires acquirit eundo ; " i . e . " it gathers strength by going . " A gentleman of ...
... observed , that the story was not the worse for being enlarged , that it was an excellent story , and had the merit of proceeding like Fame ; — " Nam vires acquirit eundo ; " i . e . " it gathers strength by going . " A gentleman of ...
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Memoirs of the Legal, Literary, and Political Life of the Late the Right ... William O'Regan Visualització completa - 1817 |
Memoirs of the Legal, Literary, and Political Life of the Late the Right ... William O'Regan Visualització completa - 1817 |
Memoirs of the Legal, Literary, and Political Life of the Late the Right ... William O'Regan Visualització completa - 1817 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 62 - ... 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 ; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty ; his body swells beyond the measure of his chains, that burst from around him, and he stands redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled, by the irresistible Genius of UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION.
Pàgina 300 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Pàgina 65 - ... researches of her Hume, to the sweet and simple, but not less sublime and pathetic morality of her Burns —how, from the bosom of a country like that, genius and character and talents should be banished to a distant, barbarous soil, condemned to pine under the horrid communion of vulgar vice and base-born profligacy, for twice the period that ordinary calculation gives to the continuance of human life?
Pàgina 97 - But I cherish, too, the consolatory hope that I shall be able to tell them that I had an old and learned friend whom I would put above all the sweepings of their hall, who was of a different opinion; who had derived his ideas of civil liberty from the purest fountains of Athens and of Rome; who had fed the youthful vigor of his studious mind with the theoretic knowledge of their wisest philosophers and statesmen...
Pàgina 160 - There are men whose powers operate only at leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts : whose bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to their own character makes them unwilling to utter at hazard what has not been considered, and cannot be recalled.
Pàgina 120 - In proportion to the humility of our submission to its rule do we rise into some faint emulation of that ineffable and presiding Divinity, whose characteristic attribute it is to be coerced and bound by the inexorable laws of its own nature, so as to be all-wise and alljust from necessity rather than election. You have seen it in the learned advocate who has preceded me most peculiarly and strikingly illustrated. You have seen even his great talents, perhaps the first in any country, languishing...
Pàgina 128 - And shall not your honest verdict mark it as it deserves? But let me go a little further: let me ask you — for I confess I have no distinct idea...
Pàgina 133 - ... from his heart. The heart of an Irishman is by nature bold, and he confides; it is tender, and he loves; it is generous, and he gives; it is social, and he is hospitable.
Pàgina 126 - ... what you think of its enormity. In every point of view in which I can look at the subject, I see you are called upon to give a verdict of bold, and just, and indignant, and exemplary compensation. The injury of the plaintiff demands it from your justice ; the delinquency of the defendant provokes it by its enormity. The rank on which he has relied for impunity calls upon you to tell him, that crime does not ascend to the rank of the perpetrator, but the perpetrator sinks from his rank, and descends...
Pàgina 95 - ... screened from punishment, they cannot be protected from hatred and derision. The great tribunal of reputation will pass its inexorable sentence upon their crimes, their follies, or their incompetency; they will sink themselves under the consciousness of their situation; they will feel the operation of an acid so neutralizing the malignity of their natures, as to make them at least harmless, if it cannot make them honest. Nor is there any thing of risk in the conduct I recommend. If the fire be...