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" ... venal sheriffs returned packed juries 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... "
Speeches of John Philpot Curran, Esq: With a Brief Sketch of the History of ... - Page 95
by John Philpot Curran - 1811
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The Leisure Hour, Volume 30

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...
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The World's Famous Orations, Volume 6

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...
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The World's Famous Orations, Volume 6

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...
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The Pageant of English Prose: Being Five Hundred Passages by Three Hundred ...

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...
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Oratory, British and Irish, the Great Age (from the Accession of George the ...

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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