Speeches of John Philpot Curran, Esq: With a Brief Sketch of the History of Ireland, المجلد 1Print. and pub. by I. Riley, 1811 |
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... kind of illegal and extrajudicial proceeding hath assumed the strong form of law , and our only security depends upon a submission to lawless law ! -Mark the change which these bold intruders have wrought on the face of our country ...
... kind of illegal and extrajudicial proceeding hath assumed the strong form of law , and our only security depends upon a submission to lawless law ! -Mark the change which these bold intruders have wrought on the face of our country ...
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... kind . The sizers have , indeed , their tuition free of expense ; but they are obliged to keep the rolls of their tutors , and attend to the weekly distribution of the fines and punishments of the pupils . They have their commons gratis ...
... kind . The sizers have , indeed , their tuition free of expense ; but they are obliged to keep the rolls of their tutors , and attend to the weekly distribution of the fines and punishments of the pupils . They have their commons gratis ...
الصفحة 68
... kind of subject which I feel myself overawed when I approach . There are certain fundamental principles which nothing but necessity should expose to a public examination ; they are pillars , the depth of whose foundation you cannot ...
... kind of subject which I feel myself overawed when I approach . There are certain fundamental principles which nothing but necessity should expose to a public examination ; they are pillars , the depth of whose foundation you cannot ...
الصفحة 69
... deemed improper to a jury . Happily for these countries , the legislature of each has Iately changed , or , perhaps , to speak more properly , revi- ved and restored the law respecting trials of this kind ROWAN'S TRIAL 69.
... deemed improper to a jury . Happily for these countries , the legislature of each has Iately changed , or , perhaps , to speak more properly , revi- ved and restored the law respecting trials of this kind ROWAN'S TRIAL 69.
الصفحة 70
... kind . * For the space of thirty or forty years , a usage had prevailed in Westminster - Hall , by which the judges assumed to them- selves the decision of the question , Whether libel or not ? But the learned counsel for the ...
... kind . * For the space of thirty or forty years , a usage had prevailed in Westminster - Hall , by which the judges assumed to them- selves the decision of the question , Whether libel or not ? But the learned counsel for the ...
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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...