 | Ireland - 1805 - 428 pages
...culprit ; I am a man, you are a nuui also ; by a. revolution of power, we might change places-'-though we never could change characters ; if I stand at the...court, and dare not vindicate my character, what a force is your justice I If I stand at this bar and dare not vindicate my character, how dare you calumniate... | |
 | Francis Plowden - Ireland - 1806 - 516 pages
...shame, or the scaffold's terfors, would be the shame of such foul and unfounded imputations as have been laid against me in this court : you, my lord, are...calumniate it ? Does the sentence of death which your unhallowed policy inflicts on my body, also condemn my tongue to silence and my reputation to reproach?... | |
 | Francis Plowden - Ireland - 1806 - 508 pages
...shame, or the scaffold's terrors, would be the shame of such foul and unfounded imputations as have been laid against me in this court : you, my lord, are...my character, how dare you calumniate it ? Does the sen• tence of death which your unhallowed policy inflicts on my body, also condemn my tongue to silence... | |
 | John Philpot Curran - Ireland - 1811 - 348 pages
...culprit — I am a man, you are a man also — by a revolution of power, we might change places, though we never could change characters ; if I stand at the...calumniate it ? Does the sentence of death which, your unhallowed policy inflicts on my body, also condemn my tongue to silence, and my reputation to reproach... | |
 | John Philpot Curran - Ireland - 1811 - 354 pages
...culprit—I.am a man, you are a man also—by a revolution of power, we might change places, though we never could change characters; if I stand at the...character, what a farce is your justice ! If I stand at this'bar, and dare not vindicate my character, how dare you calumniate it ? Does the sentence of death... | |
 | Charles Phillips - Speeches, addresses, etc., Irish - 1820 - 296 pages
...may be dispensed with— —by a revolution of power, we might change places, though we never coulJ change characters; if I stand at the bar of this court,...calumniate it ? Does the sentence of death, which your unhallowed policy inflicts on my body, also condemn my tongue to silence, and my reputation to reproach... | |
 | Thomas O'Connor - English literature - 1824 - 180 pages
...culprit ; I am a man-, you are a man also ; by a revoluiion of power, we might change places, though we never could change characters ; if I stand at the bar of this court, and dare vindicate my character, what a furce is your justice I If I stand a{ this bar and dare not vindicate... | |
 | Orators - 1834 - 602 pages
...culprit ; I am a man. TOU are a man also; by a revolution of power, we might change places, though we never could change characters : if I stand at the...vindicate my character, how dare you calumniate it ? Docs the sentence of death which your unhallowed policy inflicts on my body, also condemn my tongue... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...culprit' — I am a man'; you are a man also'. By a revolution of power', we might change places', though we never could change characters'. If I stand at the...vindicate my character', what a farce is your justice'! If / stand at this bar', and dare not vindicate my character', how dare you calumniate if! Does the sentence... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 pages
...culprit' — I am a man'; you are a man also'. By a revolution of power', we might change places', though we never could change characters'- If I stand at the...at this bar', and dare not vindicate my character', howdare you calumniate it'? Does the sentence of death', which your unhallowed policy inflicts upon... | |
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You, my lord, are a judge ; I am the supposed culprit: I am a man, you are a man also; by a revolution of power we might change places, though we never could change characters. If I stand at the bar of this court and dare not vindicate my character, what... 
