 | Ireland - 1821 - 518 pages
...exclusively to Nisi Prius. " 1 made," said he, in a letter to Mr. Grattan twenty years afterwards, " no compromise with power; I had the merit of provoking...the personal malice of every man in Ireland who was known to be the enemy of the country. Without the walls of the courts of justice, my character was... | |
 | Ireland - 1821 - 508 pages
...exclusively to Nisi Prius. " 1 made," said he, in a letter to Mr. Grattan twenty years afterwards, " no compromise with power; I had the merit of provoking...the personal malice of every man in Ireland who was known to be the enemy of the country. Without the walls of the courts of justice, my character was... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1871 - 604 pages
...100CW. a year, and he, himself, in a letter to Grattan, wrote : — ' I made no compromise with honour. I had the merit of provoking and despising the personal...of every man in Ireland who was the known enemy of our country. Without the walls of the Courts of Justice my character was pursued with the most persevering... | |
 | Leonard Deming - Anecdotes - 1825 - 338 pages
...excusable indignation. In a letter which he addressed to a friend, twenty years after, he says, " I mude no compromise with power : I had the merit of provoking and despising the personal malice of every man m Ireland, who was the known enemy of the country. Without the walls of the court of justice, my character... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 368 pages
...and excusable indignation. In a letter which he addressed to a friend, twenty years after, he says, " I made no compromise with power ; I had the merit...known enemy of the country. Without the walls of the court of justice, my character was pursued with the most persevering slander; and within those walls,... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 384 pages
...which he addressed to a friend, twenty years after, he says, " I made no compromise with power ; 1 had the merit of provoking and despising the personal...known enemy of the country. Without the walls of the court of justice, my character was pursued with the most persevering slander ; and within those walls,... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 258 pages
...perceive that when his lordship shakes his head there's nothing in it!" tan, twenty years after,—" I made no compromise with power,— I had the merit...known enemy of the country. Without the walls of the court of justice, my character was pursued with the most persevering slander, and within those walls,... | |
 | 1839 - 598 pages
...Curran. In a letter to Mr. Grattan, twenty years after, he said, " I made no compromise with honour ; I had the merit of provoking and despising the personal...of every man in Ireland who was the known enemy of our country. Without the walls of the courts of justice, my character was pursued with the most persevering... | |
 | English literature - 1839 - 596 pages
...Curran. In a letter to Mr. Grattan, twenty years after, he said, " I made no compromise with honour ; I had the merit of provoking and despising the personal malice of every roan in Ireland who was the known enemy of our country. Without the walls of the courts of justice,... | |
 | Charles Phillips - Ireland - 1851 - 464 pages
...Nisi Prius. " I made," said Mr. Curran, in a letter addressed to Mr. G-rattan twenty years after, " I made no compromise with power. I had the merit of...of every man in Ireland who was the known enemy of his country. Without the walls of the courts of justice, my character was pursued with the most persevering... | |
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Without the walls of the court of justice, my character was pursued with the most persevering slander ; and within those walls, though I was too strong to be beaten down by any judicial malignity, it was not so with my clients, and my consequent losses... 
