This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820 edition. Excerpt: ..., MR. PHILLIPS IN THE CASE OF CTMULLAN v. M'KORKILL, DELIVERED IN THE COUNTY COURT-HOUSE, GALWAY. My Lords and Gentlemen, I Am instructed as of counsel for the plaintiff to state to you the circumstances in which this action has originated. It is a source to me, I will confess it, of much personal ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820 edition. Excerpt: ..., MR. PHILLIPS IN THE CASE OF CTMULLAN v. M'KORKILL, DELIVERED IN THE COUNTY COURT-HOUSE, GALWAY. My Lords and Gentlemen, I Am instructed as of counsel for the plaintiff to state to you the circumstances in which this action has originated. It is a source to me, I will confess it, of much personal embarrassment. Feebly, indeed, can I attempt to convey to you, the feelings with which a perusal of this brief haa affected me; painful to you must be my inefficient transcript--painful to all who have the common feelings of country or of kind, must be this calamitous compendium of all that degrades our individual nature, and of all that has, for many an age of sorrow, perpetuated a curse upon our national character. It is, perhaps, the misery of this profession, 'that every hour our vision may be blasted by some withering crime, and our hearts wrung with some agonizing recital; there is no frightful form of vice, or no disgusting phantom of infirmity, which guilt does not array in spectral train before us. Horrible is the assemblage! humiliating the application! but, thank God, even amid those very scenes of disgrace and of debasement, occasions oft arise for the redemption of our dignity; occasions, on which the virtues breathed into us, by heavenly inspiration, walk abroad in the divinity of their exertion; before whose beam the wintry robe falls from the form of virtue, and all the midnight images of horror vanish into nothing. Joyfully and piously do I recognize such an occasion; gladly do I invoke you to the generous participation; yes, gentlemen, though you must prepare to hear much that degrades our nature, much that distracts our country--though all that oppression could devise against the poor--though all that persecution could inflict...
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