 | Salem Town - American literature - 1847 - 420 pages
...an Irish patriot, tried and executed for treason. my character to obloquy, for there must he gnilt somewhere ; whether in the sentence of the court or in the catastrophe, posterity must determine. 4. A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune, and the... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - Nationalists - 1847 - 380 pages
...sentence of the law which delivers over my body to the executioner, consigns my character to obloquy. A man, in my situation has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune, but also the difficulties of prejudice. Whilst the man dies, his memory lives ; and that mine may not... | |
 | Charles Phillips - Ireland - 1850 - 534 pages
...sentence of the law, which delivers over my body to the executioner, consigns my character to obloquy. A man in my situation has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune, but also the difficulties of prejudice. Whilst the man dies, his memory lives ; and that mine may not... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - Elocution - 1851 - 328 pages
...through the ministry of that law, labor, in its own vindication, to consign my character to obloquy; for there must be guilt somewhere — whether in the sentence...court, or in the catastrophe, posterity must determine. The man dies, but his memory lives. That mine may not perish, — that it may live in the respect of... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...sentence of the court or in the catastrophe, posterity must determine. 4. A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune, and the force of power ovei minds which it has corrupted or subjugated, but the difficulties of established prejudice. The... | |
 | Charles Phillips - Ireland - 1851 - 464 pages
...sentence of the law, which delivers over my body to the executioner, consigns my character to obloquy. A man in my situation has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune, but also the difficulties of prejudice. While the man dies, his memory lives ; and that mine may not... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...through the ministry of that law, labor, in its own vindication, to consign my character to obloquy : for there must be guilt somewhere, — whether in the...catastrophe, posterity must determine. A man in my situation, my Lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune, and the force of power over minds... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...through the ministry of that law, labor, in its own vindication, to consign my character to obloquy : for there must be guilt somewhere, — whether in the...catastrophe, posterity must determine. A man in my situation, my Lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune, and the force of power over minds... | |
 | John W. Burke - Ireland - 1853 - 324 pages
...consign my character to oblocjuy ; for there must be guilt aamewhera: whether in the sentence of the J Court or in the catastrophe, posterity must determine. A man in my situation, my Lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune, and the force of power over minds... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - Emmet's rebellion, 1803 - 1854 - 552 pages
...through the ministry of that law, labour in its own vindication, to consign my character to obloquy ; for there must be guilt somewhere, — whether in the...catastrophe, posterity must determine. A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune, and the forces of power over minds... | |
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I should bow in silence, and meet the fate that awaits me without a murmur. But the sentence of the law which delivers my body to the executioner will, through the ministry of that law, labor, in its own vindication, to consign my character to obloquy... 
