The Irish magazine, and monthly asylum for neglected biography. Feb.-Nov. 1808, Jan. 1809 - July 18121809 |
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... also promifing re compences of a more substantial na- ture . During this famous action , which coft only 2000 men to France , the Spaniards loft more than 16000 , men , pieces of artillery , 300 ftandards , and 14 History and Biography ,
... also promifing re compences of a more substantial na- ture . During this famous action , which coft only 2000 men to France , the Spaniards loft more than 16000 , men , pieces of artillery , 300 ftandards , and 14 History and Biography ,
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men , pieces of artillery , 300 ftandards , and a great number of of- ficers , among whom was the brave Count Fuentès , whofe cool valour bad nearly proved fo fatal to France , and who expired by the fide of the litter on which he had ...
men , pieces of artillery , 300 ftandards , and a great number of of- ficers , among whom was the brave Count Fuentès , whofe cool valour bad nearly proved fo fatal to France , and who expired by the fide of the litter on which he had ...
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... pieces of cannon , and all their bag- gage . " It would appear ( fays his de- fcendant , to have been referved for the good fortune of the Great Condé not only to conquer , but even to def- troy the mostformidable enemy of France to ...
... pieces of cannon , and all their bag- gage . " It would appear ( fays his de- fcendant , to have been referved for the good fortune of the Great Condé not only to conquer , but even to def- troy the mostformidable enemy of France to ...
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... piece of literary affrontery , and pious fraud that would not discre- dit any of the tales which the ene mies of Catholic Christianity ascribe to the darkest ages . This Protestant Priest , is as dexterous in defending the reign and the ...
... piece of literary affrontery , and pious fraud that would not discre- dit any of the tales which the ene mies of Catholic Christianity ascribe to the darkest ages . This Protestant Priest , is as dexterous in defending the reign and the ...
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... piece , or rather an imitation ofa HE TY- RANT in antiquity ; when some of his favourites had the courage to tell him he was breaking through an ancient law , that interdicted punishing a virgin capitally , at the same time remarking ...
... piece , or rather an imitation ofa HE TY- RANT in antiquity ; when some of his favourites had the courage to tell him he was breaking through an ancient law , that interdicted punishing a virgin capitally , at the same time remarking ...
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Страница 66 - Major Sandys. Here he was flung into a room of about thirteen feet by twelve — it was called the hospital of the provost. It was occupied by six beds, in which were to lie fourteen or fifteen miserable wretches, some of them sinking under contagious diseases.
Страница 221 - I speak not now of the public proclamation of informers, with a promise of secrecy and of extravagant reward ; I speak not of the fate of those horrid wretches who have been so often transferred from the table to the dock, and from the dock to the pillory; I speak of what your own eyes have seen day after day...
Страница 222 - ... horror? How his glance, like the lightning of heaven, seemed to rive the body of the accused, and mark it for the grave, while his voice warned the devoted wretch of...
Страница 218 - ... authority. Perhaps, gentlemen, he may know you better than I do. If he does, he has spoken to you as he ought ; he has been right in telling you, that if the reprobation of this writer is weak, it is because his genius could not make it stronger ; he has been right in telling you that his language has not been braided and festooned...
Страница 207 - The former may be called personal, and the latter political publications. No two things can be more different in their nature, nor in the point of view in which they are to be looked on by a jury. The criminality of a mere personal libel consists in this, that it tends to a breach of the peace ; it tends to all the vindictive paroxysms of exasperated vanity, or to the deeper and more deadly vengeance of irritated pride.
Страница 222 - ... death, and the supreme arbiter of both? Have you not marked, when he entered, how the stormy wave of the multitude retired at his approach ? Have you not marked how the human heart bowed to the supremacy of his power in the undissembled homage of deferential horror?
Страница 217 - ... prostrate themselves before the humanity of the bench, and pray that the mercy of the crown might save their characters from the reproach of an involuntary crime, their consciences from the torture of eternal self-condemnation, and their souls from the indelible stain of innocent blood. Let me suppose that you had seen the respite given...
Страница 217 - ... that through the slow and lingering progress of twelve tedious months you had seen him confined in a dungeon, shut out from the common use of air and of his own limbs; that day after day you had marked the unhappy captive, cheered by no sound but the cries of his family, or the clinking of chains; that you had seen him...