Sketches of the Irish Bar, Volume 2Redfield, 1854 - 388 halaman |
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... never to omit exhibiting the promptitude of an Irish gentleman , in resorting to these foren- sic and parliamentary instruments of advancement . * * Lord Norbury made frequent , if not good , use of his pistols- " barkers , " as they ...
... never to omit exhibiting the promptitude of an Irish gentleman , in resorting to these foren- sic and parliamentary instruments of advancement . * * Lord Norbury made frequent , if not good , use of his pistols- " barkers , " as they ...
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... never have risen to any sort of eminence , where perspicuity or erudition was requisite for success . But the qualifications for distinction , at the time when Lord Norbury was called , were essentially different from what they are at ...
... never have risen to any sort of eminence , where perspicuity or erudition was requisite for success . But the qualifications for distinction , at the time when Lord Norbury was called , were essentially different from what they are at ...
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... never urging it . Once , when it was stated , on a money - grant , that it was unjust to saddle posterity with a debt incurred to benefit the present generation , Sir Boyle rose up and said , " Why should we beggar ourselves to benefit ...
... never urging it . Once , when it was stated , on a money - grant , that it was unjust to saddle posterity with a debt incurred to benefit the present generation , Sir Boyle rose up and said , " Why should we beggar ourselves to benefit ...
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... never could change characters . " And then the defiance : " There are men concerned in this conspiracy who are not only superior to me , but even to your own conceptions of yourself , my lord - men before the splendor of whose genius ...
... never could change characters . " And then the defiance : " There are men concerned in this conspiracy who are not only superior to me , but even to your own conceptions of yourself , my lord - men before the splendor of whose genius ...
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... never heard of any one that throve after your making them ! " Norbury , who relished a retort , actually granted Darby a reprieve be- fore leaving the assize - town , and successfully recommended him for a commuta- tion of punishment on ...
... never heard of any one that throve after your making them ! " Norbury , who relished a retort , actually granted Darby a reprieve be- fore leaving the assize - town , and successfully recommended him for a commuta- tion of punishment on ...
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Halaman 230 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed ! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat, but for promotion; And having that, do choke their service up Even with the having: it is not so with thee.
Halaman 76 - Ireland; a long series of oppressions, aided by many very ill-judged laws, have brought landlords into a habit of exerting a very lofty superiority, and their vassals into that of an almost unlimited submission: speaking a language that is despised, professing a religion that is abhorred ()and being disarmed, the poor find themselves in many cases slaves even in the bosom of written liberty.
Halaman 73 - ... and, having taken the administration of justice into their own hands, were not very exact in the distribution of it.
Halaman 138 - The glorious, pious and immortal memory of the great and good King William — not forgetting Oliver Cromwell, who assisted in redeeming us from Popery, slavery, arbitrary power, brass money and wooden shoes.
Halaman 294 - O'Connell rallied Mr. Gore to such a point upon this head, and that of his supposed origin, that the latter completely sunk under the attack. He next proceeded to Mr. Fitzgerald, and, having drawn a picture of the late Mr. Perceval, he turned round and asked of the rival candidate, with what face he could call himself their friend, when the first act of his political life was to enlist himself under the banners of
Halaman 79 - A Protestant King of Ireland, A Protestant Parliament, A Protestant Hierarchy, Protestant Electors and Government, The Benches of Justice, The Army and the Revenue. Through all their Branches and Details, Protestant: And this System Supported by a Connection with the Protestant Realm of Britain.
Halaman 286 - ... visages were seen felicitously intermixed, outside the balustrade of the gallery on the left hand of the Sheriff. Before the business began, a gentleman was observed on whom every eye was turned. He had indeed chosen a most singular position ; for instead of sitting like the other auditors on the seats in the gallery, he leaped over it, and, suspending himself above the crowd, afforded what was an object of wonder to the great body of the spectators, and of indignation to the High Sheriff.
Halaman 37 - Lord Norbury has been always remarkable for his frugality. He was in the habit of stuffing papers into the old chairs in his study, in order to supply the deficiency of horse-hair which the incumbency of eighty years had produced in their bottoms. At last, however, they became, even with the aid of this occasional supplement, unfit for use, and were sent by his Lordship to a shop in which old furniture was advertised to be bought and sold. An individual of the name of Monaghan got one of these chairs...
Halaman 287 - at the end of it, hung conspicuously over his breast ; and a profusion of black curls, curiously festooned about his temples, shadowed a very handsome and expressive countenance, a great part of which was occupied by whiskers of a bushy amplitude.
Halaman 109 - SHE walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.