 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1846 - 310 pages
...character ; it is the effusion of her gratitude to that Power which stamps that character upon her. Gentlemen, I am glad that this question has not been...rejoice for the sake of the court, of the jury, and qf the public repose, that this question has not been brought forward till now. In Great Britain, analogous... | |
 | John Philpot Curran - Ireland - 1847 - 662 pages
...that grand detector of public imposture; guard it, because, when it sinks, there sinks with it, in one common grave, the liberty of the subject, and...not been brought forward till now. In Great Britain, analagous circumstances have taken place. At the commencement of that unfortunate war which has deluged... | |
 | Hugh Gawthrop - Recitations - 1847 - 184 pages
...that grand detector of public imposture ; guard it, because, when it sinks, there sinks with it, in one common grave, the liberty of the subject, and the security of the crown. EXTRACT FROM LORD ERSKINE S SPEECH FOR CAPTAIN BAILLIB. NOV. 24, 1778. SUCH, my Lords, is the case.... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 570 pages
...that grand detector of public imposture : guard it, because, when it sinks, there sinks with it, in one common grave, the liberty of the subject, and the security of the crowp T&ere is a sort of aspiring and adventurous credulty, which disdains assenting to obvious truths,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...that grand detector of public imposture ! Guard it, because, when it sinks, there sinks with it, in one common grave, the liberty of the subject, and the security of the Crown ! 2. DESCRIPTION OP MR. ROWAN, 1794.— John Phi/pot Currttn. with so small a number. There is not... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...that grand detector of public imposture ! Guard it, because, when it sinks, there sinks with it, in one common grave, the liberty of the subject, and the security of the Crown ! * ». DESCRIPTION OF MB. ROWAN, 1794.— John Philpot Currm. GENTLEMEN, if you still have any doubt... | |
 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...that grand detector of public imposture ! Guard it, because, when it sinks, there sinks with it, in one common grave, the liberty of the subject, and the security of the Crown ! * 2. DESCRIPTION 0r MR. ROWAN, 1794.— 7>*n ;•/•;;,.,•,; Curron. frith so small a number.... | |
 | John Philpot Curran - Ireland - 1855 - 476 pages
...that grand detector of public imposture ; guard it, because, when it sinks, there sinks with it, m one common grave, the liberty of the subject, and...repose, that this question has not been brought forward tilJ * " It may not be ungratifying to hear the manner in which this passage was suggested to the speaker's... | |
 | Robert Shelton Mackenzie - Folk literature, Irish - 1854 - 468 pages
...addressing his countrymen, he said, " Guard it, I beseech you, for when it sinks, there sink with it, in one common grave, the liberty of the subject and the security of the Crown." It was Lucas who strenuously denied the right of a British Parliament to govern Ireland, who asserted... | |
 | William Henry Curran - Ireland - 1855 - 566 pages
...that grand detector of public imposture — guard it — because when it sinks there sinks with it, in one common grave, the liberty of the subject, and the security of the Crown." The concluding passage of this speech (of which the preceding extracts are inserted merely as examples... | |
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... advocate of society, therefore — of peace — of domestic liberty — and the lasting union of the two countries — I conjure you to guard the liberty of the press, that great sentinel of the state, that grand detector of public imposture; guard... 
