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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... judges who preside on the bench , and with my brethren of the bar . I feel , as an advocate for my client , the awful duty of an obligation that has devolved . upon me . I do not mean , gentlemen , to dilate on my own personal fatigues ...
... judges who preside on the bench , and with my brethren of the bar . I feel , as an advocate for my client , the awful duty of an obligation that has devolved . upon me . I do not mean , gentlemen , to dilate on my own personal fatigues ...
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... judges . Some censure on former occasions hath fallen on former judges , from a breach of this doctrine . Upon a former occasion I differed in opinion from the learned judge who then presided , as to what I conceived to be the law , as ...
... judges . Some censure on former occasions hath fallen on former judges , from a breach of this doctrine . Upon a former occasion I differed in opinion from the learned judge who then presided , as to what I conceived to be the law , as ...
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... judges are of opinion , that two witnesses are not , in Ireland , required to substantiate an overt act : therefore their opinion must be acquiesced in . Let me suppose that Confucius , Plato , Solon , or Tully , or any other great ...
... judges are of opinion , that two witnesses are not , in Ireland , required to substantiate an overt act : therefore their opinion must be acquiesced in . Let me suppose that Confucius , Plato , Solon , or Tully , or any other great ...
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... judge of their own present view , I do not think they would come justly with their ver- dict of condemnation . The question is not whether there was any meeting at Bond's , but what was the object of that meeting ? Bond was in the ...
... judge of their own present view , I do not think they would come justly with their ver- dict of condemnation . The question is not whether there was any meeting at Bond's , but what was the object of that meeting ? Bond was in the ...
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... judges , but it is the last scene of departing liberty . I have read that in the period of the rebellion , in the last century , in England , that jurors , on trials by the common law of the land , have been swayed in their ...
... judges , but it is the last scene of departing liberty . I have read that in the period of the rebellion , in the last century , in England , that jurors , on trials by the common law of the land , have been swayed in their ...
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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.