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" Gentlemen, what horrid alternative in the treatment of wives would such reasoning recommend ? Are they to be immured by worse than eastern barbarity? Are their principles to be depraved, their passions sublimated, every finer motive of action extinguished... "
Recollections of Curran, and Some of His Contemporaries - Page 374
by Charles Phillips - 1822 - 403 pages
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Speeches of John Philpot Curran ... To which is added, Henry Grattan, Esq.'s ...

John Philpot CURRAN (Right Hon.) - 1805 - 448 pages
...crimes ? HONOURABLY but fatally for his own repofe, he was neither jealous, fufpicious, norciuel. — He treated the defendant with the confidence of a friend — and his wife with the^ tendernefs of a hufband. — He did leave to the noble maiquis the phyfical pombility of committing...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 3

Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 464 pages
...worse than eastern barbarity? Are their principles to be depraved — their passions sublimated, every finer motive of action extinguished by the inevitable...passport of the adulterer, and the justification of his crime? Honourably but fatally for his own repose, he was neither jealous, suspicious, nor cruel. He...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 3

Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 458 pages
...worse than eastern barbarity? Are their principles to be depraved — their passions sublimated, every finer motive of action extinguished by the inevitable...passport of the adulterer, and the justification of his crime ? Honourably but fatally for his own repose, he was neither jealous, suspicious, nor cruel. He...
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The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches ..., Volume 3

1808 - 542 pages
...worse than eastern barbarity ? Are their principles to be depraved—their passions sublimated, every finer motive of action extinguished by the inevitable consequences of thus treating them like slaves ? Was a liberal and generous confidence in them to be the passport of the adulterer, and the justification...
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The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches ..., Volume 3

Thomas Browne (LL.D.) - 1810 - 516 pages
...confidence in them to be the passport of the adulterer, and the justification of his crimes? " Honorably, but fatally for his own repose, he was neither jealous, suspicious, nor cruel. — He treated the defendant with the confidence of a friend, — and his wife with the tenderness...
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Speeches of John Philpot Curran, Esq: With a Brief Sketch of the ..., Volume 2

John Philpot Curran - 1811 - 348 pages
...worse than eastern barbarity ? Are their principles to be depraved — their passions sublimated, every finer motive of action extinguished by the inevitable...own repose, he was neither jealous, suspicious, nor cruel. He treated the defendant with the confidence of a friend, and his wife with the tenderness of...
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Speeches of John Philpot Curran, Esq: With a Brief Sketch of the ..., Volume 2

John Philpot Curran - 1811 - 354 pages
...worse than eastern barbarity ? Are their principles 10 be depraved—their passions sublimated, every finer motive of action extinguished by the inevitable...own repose, he was neither jealous, suspicious, nor cruel. He treated the defendant with the confidence of a friend, and his wife with the tenderness of...
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The Spirit of "The Book"; Or, Memoirs of Caroline Princess of ..., Volume 1

Thomas Ashe - 1812 - 382 pages
...worse than eastern barbarity ? Are their principles to be depraved; their passions sublimated; every finer motive of action extinguished by the inevitable consequences of thus treating them like slaves I Is confidence and hospitality to b& interpreted into guilt and discretion ? And is a liberal and...
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Memoirs of the Legal, Literary, and Political Life of the Late the Right ...

William O'Regan - 1817 - 346 pages
...worse than eastern barbarity ? Are their principles to be depraved, their passions sublimated, every finer motive of action extinguished by the inevitable...own repose, he was neither jealous, suspicious, nor cruel. He treated the defendant with the confidence of a friend, and his wife wkh the tenderness of...
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Memoirs of the legal, literary, and political life of ... John Philpot Curran

William O'Regan - 1817 - 342 pages
...passions sublimated, every finer motive of action extinguished by the inevitable consequences ofthus treating them like slaves ? Or is a liberal and generous...own repose, he was neither jealous, suspicious, nor cruel. He treated the defendant with the confidence of a friend, and his wife with the tenderness of...
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