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... called up to charm away the effect of a kindling address from Grattan , or to retort the delicate and classic wit of Curran , by a whole drove of the most rampant comicalities of Munster . It was a frequent subject of observation that ...
... called up to charm away the effect of a kindling address from Grattan , or to retort the delicate and classic wit of Curran , by a whole drove of the most rampant comicalities of Munster . It was a frequent subject of observation that ...
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Irishman James Wills. a dozen or two of the committee clerks should be called in , and have the documents distributed among them , when , by reading all together , the whole might be done in a quarter of an hour . A loud laugh dis ...
Irishman James Wills. a dozen or two of the committee clerks should be called in , and have the documents distributed among them , when , by reading all together , the whole might be done in a quarter of an hour . A loud laugh dis ...
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... called managing the Irish house , was service not very much adapted to Mr Burke's moral or intellectual temper , and in part also involves a degree of publicity inconsistent with any doubts being left on the question . The main ground ...
... called managing the Irish house , was service not very much adapted to Mr Burke's moral or intellectual temper , and in part also involves a degree of publicity inconsistent with any doubts being left on the question . The main ground ...
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... called to the head of affairs , appointed him his private secre- tary . This fortunate incident , the beginning of his brilliant political career , was nearly frustrated by the suspicions of the duke of Newcastle , who , having heard ...
... called to the head of affairs , appointed him his private secre- tary . This fortunate incident , the beginning of his brilliant political career , was nearly frustrated by the suspicions of the duke of Newcastle , who , having heard ...
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... called him the first of men , denied him wit alone ; and yet , if this denial be allowed , it will be hard to say what wit is , otherwise than by the pedantry of a very curt definition . The fault of much of the most striking passages ...
... called him the first of men , denied him wit alone ; and yet , if this denial be allowed , it will be hard to say what wit is , otherwise than by the pedantry of a very curt definition . The fault of much of the most striking passages ...
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Page 283 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Page 366 - On the demise of a person of eminence, it is confidently averred that he had a hand "open as day to melting charity," and that "take him for all in all, we ne'er shall look upon his like again.
Page 293 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt, to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 282 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Page 293 - He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur...
Page 283 - If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination. And what sort of reason is that in which the determination precedes the discussion, in which one set of men deliberate and another decide, and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments...
Page 404 - To subvert the tyranny of our execrable Government, to break the connection with England, the neverfailing source of all our political evils, and to assert the independence of my country — these were my objects. To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of all past dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter — these were my means.
Page 261 - He made an administration, so chequered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white...
Page 265 - Nor has he dreaded the terror of your brow, sir; he has attacked even you — he has — and I believe you have no reason to triumph in the encounter. In short, after carrying away our royal eagle in his pounces, and dashing him against a rock, he has laid you prostrate. Kings, lords, and commons, are but the sport of his fury.
Page 324 - ... The spirit it is impossible not to admire ; but the old Parisian ferocity has broken out in a shocking manner. It is true, that this may be no more than a sudden explosion ; if so, no indication can be taken from it ; but if it should be character, rather than accident, then that people are not fit for liberty, and must have a strong hand, like that of their former masters, to coerce them.