The Speeches of Charles Phillips, Esq: Delivered at the Bar and on Various Public Occasions in Ireland and EnglandKirk & Mercein, 1817 - 213 pagina's |
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... ambition ! Look to Pro- testant Ireland , shooting over the empire those rays of genius , and those thunderbolts of war , that have at once embellished and preserved it . I speak not of a former era . I refer not for my example to the ...
... ambition ! Look to Pro- testant Ireland , shooting over the empire those rays of genius , and those thunderbolts of war , that have at once embellished and preserved it . I speak not of a former era . I refer not for my example to the ...
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... ambition of the true patriot ; such are the views for which we are calumniated ! Oh , divine ambition ! Oh , delightful calumny ! Happy he who shall see thee accom- plished ! Happy he who through every peril toils for thy attainment ...
... ambition of the true patriot ; such are the views for which we are calumniated ! Oh , divine ambition ! Oh , delightful calumny ! Happy he who shall see thee accom- plished ! Happy he who through every peril toils for thy attainment ...
Pagina 24
... vanish from before him , in the blasphemy of his ambition he smote the apostle of his God , and dared to raise the everlasting Cross amid his perishable trophies ! I am no fanatic , but 1 is it not remarkable ? May it not be one 24 SPEECH.
... vanish from before him , in the blasphemy of his ambition he smote the apostle of his God , and dared to raise the everlasting Cross amid his perishable trophies ! I am no fanatic , but 1 is it not remarkable ? May it not be one 24 SPEECH.
Pagina 30
... ambition ; which administers to the vanity or the vice of a party , when it should only study the advantage of a people ; and holds out the per- quisites of state as an impious bounty on the per- secution of religion . - I have already ...
... ambition ; which administers to the vanity or the vice of a party , when it should only study the advantage of a people ; and holds out the per- quisites of state as an impious bounty on the per- secution of religion . - I have already ...
Pagina 39
... ambition animated ; with Who no restraint but those laws which are the same to all , and no distinction but that which his merit may originate . Who can deny that the existence of such a country presents a subject for human ...
... ambition animated ; with Who no restraint but those laws which are the same to all , and no distinction but that which his merit may originate . Who can deny that the existence of such a country presents a subject for human ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 107 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar...
Pagina 201 - Corsica waving his imperial flag over her most ancient capitals. All the visions of antiquity became common places in his contemplation; kings were his people — nations were his outposts; and he disposed of courts, and crowns, and camps, and churches, and cabinets, as if they were the titular dignitaries of the chessboard!
Pagina 151 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear...
Pagina 119 - 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.
Pagina 41 - As a general he marshalled the peasant into a veteran, and supplied by discipline the absence of experience. As a statesman, he enlarged the policy of the cabinet into the most comprehensive system of general advantage ; and such was the wisdom of his views, and the philosophy of his counsels, that to the soldier and the statesman, he almost added the character of the sage.
Pagina 151 - Heaven is saintly chastity, that, when a soul is found sincerely so, a thousand. liveried angels lackey her, driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, and, in clear dream and solemn vision, tell her of things that no gross ear can hear; till oft converse with heavenly habitants begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, the unpolluted temple of the mind, and turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, till all be made immortal.
Pagina 198 - Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptred hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his own originality. A mind bold, independent, and decisive — a will, despotic in its dictates — an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of this extraordinary...
Pagina 40 - No people can claim, no country can appropriate him. The boon of Providence to the human race, his fame is eternity, and his residence creation. Though it was the defeat of our arms, and the disgrace of our policy, I almost bless the convulsion in which he had his origin. If the heavens thundered, and the earth rocked, yet, when the storm...
Pagina 201 - The victorious veteran glittered with his gains; and the capital, gorgeous with the spoils of art, became the miniature metropolis of the universe.
Pagina 40 - Grecian artist, to exhibit, in one glow of associated beauty, the pride of every model and the perfection of every master. As a general, he marshalled the peasant into a veteran, and supplied by discipline the absence of experience ; as a statesman, he enlarged the policy of the cabinet into the most comprehensive system of general advantage ; and such was the wisdom of his views and the philosophy of his...