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" ... to carry into effect those fatal conspiracies of the few against the many, when the devoted benches of public justice were filled by some of those foundlings of fortune, who, overwhelmed in the torrent of corruption at an early period, lay at the... "
Recollections of Curran and Some of His Contemporaries - Page 160
by Charles Phillips - 1818 - 340 pages
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The Following Information was Filed by His Majesty's Attorney General ...

Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - 1793 - 162 pages
...buoyant by putrefac,tion, they rofe as they rotted, and floated to the furface of the polluted ftream, where they were drifted along, the objects of terror,...In that awful moment of a nation's travail, of the lad gafp of tyranny, and the firit breath of freedom, how pregnant is the example ! The prefs extinguifhed,...
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The Beauties of the Press: With an Appendix, Containing the Speech of Arthur ...

Press, Dublin - 1800 - 682 pages
...buoyant by putrefadion, they rofe as they rotted, and floated to the furface of the polluted flream, where they were drifted along, the objects of terror,...contagion, and abomination. In that awful moment of a nations travail, of the lafl gafp of tyranny, and the firft breath of freedom ; how pregnant is the...
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Forensic Eloquence: Sketches of Trials in Ireland for High Treason, Etc ...

John Philpot Curran - 1804 - 408 pages
...torrent of corruption at an early period, lay at the bottom like drowned bodies, while soundness or sanity remained in them; but at length becoming buoyant by putrefaction, they rose as they rotted, and Boated to the surface of the polluted stream, where they were drifted along, the objects of terror,...
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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
...buoyant by putrefaction, they rofe as they rotted, and floated to the furface of the polluted ftream, where they were drifted along, the objects of terror,...that awful moment of a nation's travail-; of .the Uft gafp of tyranny, and the fiift breath of freedom, how pregnant is the example ? The prefs extinguifhed,...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 3

Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 464 pages
...torrent of corruption at an early period, lay at the bottom like drowned bodies, while soundness or sanity remained in them ; but at length becoming buoyant...stream, where they were drifted along, the objects of terrour, and contagion, and abomination ! In that awful moment of a nation's travail, of the last gasp...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 3

Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 458 pages
...torrent of corruption at an early period, lay at the bottom like drowned bodies, while soundness or sanity remained in them ; but at length becoming buoyant...stream, where they were drifted along, the objects of terrour, and contagion, and abomination! In that awful moment of a nation's travail, of the last gasp...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 13

1809 - 530 pages
...torrent of corruption at an early period, lay at the bottom like drowned bodies* while soundness or sanity remained in them ; but at length, becoming...objects of terror, and contagion, and abomination.' p. 184. There is a still more outrageous passage at p. 265. But we close our extracts with the following...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volume 1

1810 - 438 pages
...length, becoming buoyant by putrefaction, they rose as they rotted, * Satis at eyuitem mifii plaudere. and floated to the surface of the polluted stream,...objects of terror, and contagion, and abomination.' On this image, from which every eye recoils with disgust and abhorrence, Mr. Curran has a distempered...
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Speeches of John Philpot Curran, Esq: With a Brief Sketch of the ..., Volume 1

John Philpot Curran - 1811 - 368 pages
...torrent of corruption at an early period, lay at the bottom like drowned bodies, while soundness or sanity remained in them; but at length becoming buoyant...Stream, where they were drifted along, the objects of tefifor, and contagion, and abomination. •'•'• ~. • In that awful moment of a nation's travail,...
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The American Orator: Comprising a Collection, Principally from American ...

Joshua P. Slack - 1815 - 340 pages
...torrent of corruption at an early period, lay at the bottom like drowned bodies, while soundness or sanity remained in them ; but at length becoming buoyant...that awful moment of a nation's travail, of the last grasp of tyranny, and the first breath of freedom, how pregnant is the example ? The press extinguished,...
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