Legal and Historical SocietyWhite, 1867 - 32 Seiten |
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Legal and Historical Society: An Address Delivered by the President Richard ... Richard P. Carton Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2018 |
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Seite 26 - Ah! Then, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw, and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile Amid a world how different from this!
Seite 19 - He was often interrupted by the deep hum of his audience ; and when, after preaching out the hourglass, which in those days was part of the furniture of the pulpit, he held it up in his hand, the congregation clamorously encouraged him to go on till the sand had run off once more.* In his moral character, as in his intellect, great blemishes were more than compensated by great excellence.
Seite 28 - court of justice, the veriest dolt that ever stammered a sentence, would be more attended to, with a case in point, than Cicero with all his eloquence, unsupported by authorities,"* yet even an argument on a dry point of law, produces a better impression, secures a more attentive auditor in the judge, when it is constructed and put together with attention to the...
Seite 31 - Students," saith Mr. Fulbeck, " should not do amiss, if at certain times they meet amongst themselves, and do propose such things as they have heard or read, by that means to be assured of the opinion of others in those matters. By this means they may be brought better to understand those things...
Seite 27 - Hence the long and brilliant list of orators which Cicero deduces from the regal period to his own. The great scope for eloquence arose from the original vice of the Roman constitution — the confounding of the legislative and judicial powers. When the legislature is employed in its proper province, of establishing, from the contemplation of a whole class of cases, a general principle for deciding on every future case that may be referable to that class ; and when the judicial power is only occupied...
Seite 26 - ... anticipated it; but all — strong expressions, terse epigram, happy figure — were wholly subservient to the purpose in view, and were manifestly perceived never to be themselves the object, never to be introduced for their own sake; they were the sparks thrown off by the motion of the engine, not fireworks to amuse by their singularity, or please by their beauty...
Seite 20 - ... Legislature has long ceased to have an existence. As to the effects of temperament and national character, we confess we are still more sceptical — at least when considered as the main causes of the phenomenon in question. Professional peculiarities, in short, we are persuaded, are to be referred much more to the circumstances of the profession, than to the national character of those who exercise it ; and the more redundant eloquence of the Irish bar, is better explained, probably, by the...
Seite 22 - ... cold and correct, unimpassioned and technical ; the other discursive, rhetorical, and embellished and encumbered with flights of fancy and appeals to the passions. These peculiarities the author imputes chiefly to the difference in the national character and general temperament of the two races, and to the unsubdued and unrectified prevalence of all that is characteristic of their country in those classes out of which the Juries of Ireland are usually selected. He ascribes them also, in part,...