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Speeches of John Philpot Curran, Esq: With a Brief Sketch of the History of ... - Page 220
by John Philpot Curran - 1811
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The Life of the Right Honourable John Philpot Curran, Late Master ..., Volume 2

William Henry Curran - Lawyers - 1819 - 562 pages
...to bear the sound of wholesome advice — whose palate is too debauched to bear the salutary bitter that might redeem him, and therefore leaves him to...slaves that talk to him of life, and strip him before he's cold." To this extreme sensibility Mr, Curran could, for the most part, give expression in grave,...
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The Literary chronicle and weekly review, Volume 2, Issues 33-83

1820 - 856 pages
...fastidious to hear the sound of wholesome advice; whose palate is top debauched to bear the salutary bitter that might redeem him, and therefore leaves him to...piety of the slaves that talk to him of life, and (trip him before he's cold. The Moon. — In some countries and languages the moon is of the masculine...
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Biographia Hibernica: A Biographical Dictionary of the Worthies of ..., Volume 1

Ireland - 1821 - 508 pages
...indignantly from the bed of an unhappy wretch, whose ear is too fastidious to bear the sound of wholesome advice ; whose palate is too debauched to bear the...of life, and strip him before he is cold. I do not wish, gentlemen, to exhaust too much of your attention by following this subject through the last century...
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Biographia Hibernica: A Biographical Dictionary of the Worthies of ..., Volume 1

Ireland - 1821 - 518 pages
...indignantly from the bed of an unhappy wretch, whose ear is too fastidious to bear the sound of wholesome advice; whose palate is too debauched to bear the...of life, and strip him before he is cold. I do not wish, gentlemen, to exhaust too much of your attention by following this subject through the last century...
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Recollections of Curran, and Some of His Contemporaries

Charles Phillips - Biography - 1822 - 434 pages
...indignantly from the bed of an unhappy wretch, whose ear is too fastidious to bear the sound of wholesome advice, whose palate is too debauched to bear the...medicine that might redeem him; and therefore leaves hirtl to the felonious piety of the slaves that talk to him of life, and strip him before he is cold....
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Irish Eloquence: The Speeches of the Celebrated Irish Orators: Phillips ...

Orators - 1834 - 602 pages
...indignantly from the bed of an unhappy wretch, whose ear is too fastidious to bear the sound of wholesome advice, whose palate is too debauched to bear the...that talk to him of life, and strip him before he is rold. I do not care, gentlemen, to exhaust too much of your attention, by following this subject through...
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Irish Eloquence: The Speeches of the Celebrated Irish Orators, Philips ...

John Philpot Curran, Robert Emmet, Henry Grattan - Ireland - 1840 - 562 pages
...indignantly from the bed of an unhappy wretch, whose ear is too fastidious to bear the sound of wholesome advice, whose palate is too debauched to bear the...much minuteness; but the facts are too recent in your mind not to show you, that the liberty of the press and the liberty of the people sink and rise together...
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Library of Oratory: Embracing Select Speeches of Celebrated ..., Volume 2

Great Britain - 1845 - 558 pages
...indignantly from the bed of an unhappy wretch, whose ear is too fastidious to bear the sound of wholesome advice, whose palate is too debauched to bear the...minuteness ; but the facts are too recent in your mind not to show you, that the liberty of the press and the liberty of the people sink and rise together...
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The Lives and Trials of Archibald Hamilton Rowan, the Rev. William Jackson ...

Thomas MacNevin - Ireland - 1846 - 616 pages
...indignantly from the bed of an unhappy wretch, whose ear is too fastidious to bear the sound of wholesome advice, whose palate is too debauched to bear the...much minuteness; but the facts are too recent in your mind not to shew you that the liberty of the Press and the liberty of the people sink and rise together...
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The Speeches of the Right Honourable John Philpot Curran

John Philpot Curran - Ireland - 1847 - 662 pages
...indignantly from the bed of an unhappj wretch, whose ear is too fastidious to bear the sound of wholesome advice, whose palate is too debauched to bear the...the medicine that might redeem him; and therefore leases him to the felonious piety of the slaves that talk to him of life and strip him before he is...
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