 | Great Britain - 1845 - 558 pages
...benches of public justice were filled by some of those foundlings of fortune, who, overwhelmed in the torrent of corruption at an early period, lay at the bottom like drowned bodies, while soundness or sanity remained in them ; but at length, becoming buoyant by putrefaction, they rose as... | |
 | Thomas MacNevin - Ireland - 1846 - 616 pages
...benches of public justice were filled by some of those foundlings of fortune, who, overwhelmed in the torrent of corruption at an early period, lay at the bottom like drowned bodies, while soundness or sanity remained in them ; but at length becoming buoyant by putrefaction, they rose as... | |
 | John Philpot Curran - Ireland - 1847 - 662 pages
...benches of public justice were filled by some of those foundlings of fortune, who, overwhelmed in the torrent of corruption at an early period, lay at the bottom, like drowned bodies, while soundness or sanity remained in them ; but, at length, becoming buoyant by putrefaction, they rose... | |
 | Charles Phillips - Ireland - 1850 - 534 pages
...benches of public justice were filled by some of those foundlings of fortune,* who, overwhelmed in the torrent of corruption at an early period, lay at the bottom like drowned bodies while sanity remained in them, but at length, becoming buoyant by putrefaction, they rose as they rotted,... | |
 | Henry Martyn Field - Ireland - 1851 - 388 pages
...one of the strongest figures in English eloquence. " Those foundlings of fortune, overwhelmed in the torrent of corruption at an early period, lay at the bottom like drowned bodies, while soundness or sanity remained in them ; but at length becoming buoyant by putrefaction, they rose as... | |
 | Charles Phillips - Ireland - 1851 - 464 pages
...benches of public justice were filled by some of those foundlings of Fortune,* who, overwhelmed in the torrent of corruption at an early period, lay at the bottom like drowned bodies while sanity remained in them, but at length, becoming buoyant by putrefaction, they rose as they rotted,... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 570 pages
...benches of public justice were filled by some of those foundlings of fortune, who, overwhelmed in the torrent of corruption at an early period, lay at the bottom like drowned bodies, while soundness or sanity remained in them ; but at length, becoming buoyant by putrefaction, they rose as... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - Christianity - 1853 - 566 pages
...benches of public justice were filled by some of those foundlings of fortune who, overwhelmed in the torrent of corruption at an early period, lay at the bottom, like drowned bodies, while sanity remained in them; but, at length, becoming buoyant by putrefaction, they rose as they rotted,... | |
 | William Henry Curran - Ireland - 1855 - 566 pages
...benches of public justice were filled by some of those foundlings of fortune, who, overwhelmed in the torrent of corruption at an early period, lay at the bottom like drowned bodies, while soundness or sanity remained in them ; but, at length, becoming buoyant by putrefaction, they rose... | |
 | American periodicals - 1857 - 592 pages
...public justice were filled by some of those wretciied foundlings of fortune., who, overwhelmed in the torrent of corruption at an early period, lay at the bottom like drowned bodies while sanity remained in them, but at length, becoming buoyant by putrefaction, they rose as they rotted,... | |
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... when the devoted benches of public justice were filled by some of those foundlings of fortune, who, overwhelmed in the torrent of corruption at an early period, lay at the bottom like drowned bodies, while soundness or sanity remained in them ; but... 
