The Metropolitan, Volume 39James Cochrane, 1844 - English literature |
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... close of the preliminary warfare , and , next , to sketch briefly the characters of the leading counsel for the accused and the crown . In a subsequent paper , we will go through the trial , and the interesting material it is certain to ...
... close of the preliminary warfare , and , next , to sketch briefly the characters of the leading counsel for the accused and the crown . In a subsequent paper , we will go through the trial , and the interesting material it is certain to ...
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... close - too tedious , we fear , for a preface , but not , we hope , without due significance and use we pass to the next portion of our subject , commencing with the arrest , and ending with the last of the series of picturesque ...
... close - too tedious , we fear , for a preface , but not , we hope , without due significance and use we pass to the next portion of our subject , commencing with the arrest , and ending with the last of the series of picturesque ...
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... close of the crown office , appeared , on behalf of Daniel O'Connell , and handed in a plea in abatement , signed " Colman Michael O'Loughlin . " The souls of the crown contingent were filled with inexpressible ap- prehension ! There ...
... close of the crown office , appeared , on behalf of Daniel O'Connell , and handed in a plea in abatement , signed " Colman Michael O'Loughlin . " The souls of the crown contingent were filled with inexpressible ap- prehension ! There ...
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... close of the first act . In the blasts of ill - temper which the Attorney - General discharged in the commencement of the management , the first volume fell on Mr. M'Donagh . After making a cursory observation , it was tartly ob- served ...
... close of the first act . In the blasts of ill - temper which the Attorney - General discharged in the commencement of the management , the first volume fell on Mr. M'Donagh . After making a cursory observation , it was tartly ob- served ...
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... Close . As is the duty of all juniors , they were the secret streams that fed the open fountain - theirs was the thunder , though others hurled it , or , in less metaphorical language , they supplied the staple of the arguments . The ...
... Close . As is the duty of all juniors , they were the secret streams that fed the open fountain - theirs was the thunder , though others hurled it , or , in less metaphorical language , they supplied the staple of the arguments . The ...
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Page 17 - I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er, On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart: If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Page 376 - The most tolerable sort of revenge is for those wrongs which there is no law to remedy ; but then, let a man take heed the revenge be such as there is no law to punish, else a man's enemy is still beforehand, and it is two for one.
Page 17 - Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
Page 376 - Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law ; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Page 145 - I chide the world-without-end hour, Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you, Nor think the bitterness of absence sour, When you have bid your servant once adieu: Nor dare I question with my jealous thought, Where you may be , or your affairs suppose...
Page 246 - THE healthy know not of their health, but only the sick : this is the Physician's Aphorism; and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it. We may say, it holds no less in moral, intellectual, political, poetical, than in merely corporeal therapeutics; that wherever, or in what shape soever, powers of the sort which can be named vital are at work, herein lies the test of their working right or working wrong.
Page 27 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 122 - They should neither have a precedency or priority of the other ; but that prayer and preaching, being equally useful, might agree like brethren, and have an equal honour and estimation.
Page 47 - It's no in books, it's no in lear, To make us truly blest : If happiness hae not her seat And centre in the breast, We may be wise, or rich, or great, But never can be blest...
Page 87 - Voyages round the World, from the Death of Captain Cook to the present Time...