| Leisure - 1881 - 816 pages
...their witness. He describes them as " the foundlings of fortune, who, overwhelmed in the torrent oi corruption at an early period, lay at the bottom like...stream, where they were drifted along, the objects of terror and contagion and abomination." Every page of Curran's orations abound in the characteristics... | |
| William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1906 - 280 pages
...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...remained in them ; but at length, becoming buoyant by putrifaction, they rose as they rotted, and floated to the surface of the polluted stream, where they... | |
| William Jennings Bryan - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1906 - 278 pages
...bodies while soundness or sanity remained in them ; but at length, becoming buoyant by putrifaction, they rose as they rotted, and floated to the surface...stream, where they were drifted along, the objects of terror, and contagion, and abomination. In that awful moment of a nation's travail, of the last gasp... | |
| Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 pages
...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...stream, where they were drifted along, the objects of terror, and contagion, and abomination. In that awful moment of a nation's travail, of the last gasp... | |
| Godfrey Tennyson Lampson Locker-Lampson - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1918 - 632 pages
...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...stream, where they were drifted along, the objects of terror, and contagion, and abomination. In that awful moment of a nation's travail ; of the last gasp... | |
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