 | John Philpot Curran - Ireland - 1862 - 482 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... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1872 - 246 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,... | |
 | Charles Anderton Read - 1879 - 390 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... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 462 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... | |
 | Van Vechten Veeder - Forensic orations - 1903 - 656 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... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - Irish literature - 1904 - 494 pages
...benches of public justice were tilled 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... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1905 - 458 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... | |
 | Leisure - 1881 - 818 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 drowned bodies while soundness or sanity remained in them. But at length, becoming buoyant by putrefaction, they rose as... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1906 - 280 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 putrifaction, they rose as... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 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... | |
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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... 
