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Events to be remembered in the history of England - Page 287
by Charles Selby - 1854
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 pages
...measures which have heaped disgrace and misfortune upon us. This, my Lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment ! It is not a time for adulation. The smoothness of flattery can not now avail — can not save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 968 pages
...measures which have heaped disgrace and misfortune upon us. This, my Lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment! It is not a time for adulation. The smoothness of flattery can not now avail—can not save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct...
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A System of Elocution: With Special Reference to Gesture, to the Treatment ...

Andrew Comstock - 1853 - 456 pages
...disgrace>. | This, my lords, | is a perilous, and tremen'dous moment : | it is not a time for adula lion : | the smoothness of flattery cannot save us | in this...necessary ) to instruct the throne in the language of truth1. | We must, if possible, | dispel the delusion, and darkness which envelope it ; \ and display...
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The Speeches of the Earl of Chatham, the Hon. R.B. Sheridan, Lord Erskine ...

William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 pages
...a tremendous moment ! It is no time for adulation. The smoothness of flattery cannot now avail — cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It...instruct the Throne in the language of truth. We must dispel the delusion and the darkness which envelope it ; and display, in its full danger and true colours,...
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English grammar and composition

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853 - 196 pages
...this conflict. — HALL. It is for you to decide whether this frecdom shall yet survive. — HALL. It is now necessary to instruct the throne in the language of truth. — LoRD CHATHAM. Who is the man that has dared to authorise this? — LoRD CHATHAM. If you do mect...
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McGuffey's Newly Revised Rhetorical Guide: Or, Fifth Reader of the Eclectic ...

William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 pages
...not, join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This, my lords, is a + perilous and tremendous moment. It is not a time for + adulation : the smoothness of flattery can not save us, in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne in the...
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McGuffey's Newly Revised Rhetorical Guide: Or, Fifth Reader of the Eclectic ...

William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 488 pages
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The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for ...

1854 - 576 pages
...m tkt Addreti of Tlutnki to the King. THIS, my Lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment. It is no time for adulation. The smoothness of flattery cannot save us, in this m;rged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the Throne, in the language of TRUTH. We must,...
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Elocution Made Easy, Containing Rules and Selections for Declamation and Reading

Rufus Claggett - 1855 - 208 pages
...disgrace. This, my lords, is a perilousf and tremendous moment. - It is not a time for adulation -4 the smoothness of flattery | cannot save us | in this...possible, dispel the delusion and darkness | which envelope it, and display, in its full danger and genuine colors, the ruin which is brought to our doors....
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The Fifth, Or, Elocutionary Reader, in which the Principles of Elocution are ...

Salem Town - 1855 - 492 pages
...loveliness, and proffer man the richest pleasures of fruition. PITT'S SPEECH. An Argumentative Appeal. smoothness of flattery cannot save us in this rugged...language of TRUTH. We must, if possible, dispel the darkness and delusion which envelop it, and display, in its full danger and genuine colors, the ruin...
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