Speeches of John Philpot Curran, Esq: With a Brief Sketch of the History of Ireland, المجلد 2Print. and pub. by I. Riley, 1811 |
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... damages , were neither short nor simple - the novelty of them might surprise , the atrocity must shock their feelings , if they had feelings to be shocked - but , he said , he did not mean to address himself to any of their proud ...
... damages , were neither short nor simple - the novelty of them might surprise , the atrocity must shock their feelings , if they had feelings to be shocked - but , he said , he did not mean to address himself to any of their proud ...
الصفحة 73
... damages laid in the declara- tion , and I'll tell you why I give you that advice : I think no damages could be excessive , either as a compensation for the injury of the plaintiff , or as a punishment of the savage bar- barity of the ...
... damages laid in the declara- tion , and I'll tell you why I give you that advice : I think no damages could be excessive , either as a compensation for the injury of the plaintiff , or as a punishment of the savage bar- barity of the ...
الصفحة 83
... damages against the defendant for a violation of the law , and an assault upon the constitution . He has brought his case before you with confi- dence , and calls steadily for justice ; not merely to avenge his own wrongs ; not with the ...
... damages against the defendant for a violation of the law , and an assault upon the constitution . He has brought his case before you with confi- dence , and calls steadily for justice ; not merely to avenge his own wrongs ; not with the ...
الصفحة 84
... It is not a common assault committed by an ordinary person , on an ordinary occasion , in the common occurrences of error or of violence , where the damages are measured by the private injury , and the 84 HEVEY v . SIRR .
... It is not a common assault committed by an ordinary person , on an ordinary occasion , in the common occurrences of error or of violence , where the damages are measured by the private injury , and the 84 HEVEY v . SIRR .
الصفحة 85
With a Brief Sketch of the History of Ireland John Philpot Curran. damages are measured by the private injury , and the wrongs of the individual are not identified with the general liberty of the country . It is not the case of a false ...
With a Brief Sketch of the History of Ireland John Philpot Curran. damages are measured by the private injury , and the wrongs of the individual are not identified with the general liberty of the country . It is not the case of a false ...
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الصفحة 141 - ... an undeserved reproach thrown upon him during his trial, by charging him with ambition, and attempting to cast away for a paltry consideration the liberties of his country ! Why did your lordship insult me?
الصفحة 138 - What have I to say, why sentence of death should not be pronounced on me, according to law ? — I have nothing to say that can alter your predetermination, nor that it will become me to say, with any view to the mitigation of that sentence which you are here to pronounce, and I must abide by.
الصفحة 139 - I should bow in silence, and meet the fate that awaits me without a murmur. But the sentence of the law which delivers my body to the executioner will, through the ministry of that law, labor, in its own vindication, to consign my character to obloquy...
الصفحة 98 - Some trust in chariots, and some in horses : but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. . 8 They are brought down and fallen : but we are risen, and stand upright.
الصفحة 142 - I am charged with being an emissary of France. An emissary of France! and for what end? It is alleged that I wished to sell the independence of my country; and for what end?
الصفحة 145 - If the spirits of the illustrious dead participate in the concerns and cares of those who are dear to them in this transitory life, O, ever dear and venerated shade of my departed father, look down with scrutiny upon the conduct of your suffering son...
الصفحة 141 - My lords, it may be a part of the system of angry justice...
الصفحة 76 - Abercromby, our poor people were surrendered to the licentious brutality of the soldiery, by the authority of the state — you would vainly endeavour to give her a general picture of lust, and rapine, and murder, and conflagration. By endeavouring to comprehend every thing, you would convey nothing.