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" I CANNOT, my Lords, I will 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 cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now... "
Elegant Extracts: Or Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose - Page 411
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The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for ...

Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 pages
...on «Al Addrets of Thanks to the King. THIS, my Lords, is a perilous and tremendous momeni It is no time for adulation. The smoothness of flattery cannot...if possible, dispel the delusion and darkness which envelop it ; and display, in its full danger and genuine colors, the ruin which is brought to our doors....
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The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for ...

Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...on the Address of Thanks to the King. Tins, my Lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment* It is no time for adulation. The smoothness of flattery cannot...necessary to instruct the Throne, in the language of Tnuxn. We must, if possible, dispel the delusion and darkness which envelop it ; and display, in its...
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Select British Eloquence; Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 pages
...tremendous moment 1 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...instruct the Throne in the language of truth. We must dispel the illusion and the darkness which '• Thin wu reported by Hugh Boyd, and is said •i have...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 968 pages
...and endeavors to sanctify the monstrous measures which have heaped disgrace and misfortune upon us. This, my Lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment!...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 - 976 pages
...and endeavors to sanctify the monstrous measures which have heaped disgrace and misfortune upon us. This, my Lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment...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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Ausfuhrliches theoretisch-praktisches lehrbuch der englischen sprache, Volume 1

G. F. Burckhardt - 1852 - 442 pages
...to the best part of the human race as liberty; nothing has been so longed for, thought for, praised. This, my Lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment; it is not a time for adulation; smoothness and flattery cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis; it is now necessary to instruct...
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McGuffey's Newly Revised Rhetorical Guide: Or, Fifth Reader of the Eclectic ...

William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 pages
...She had not died today. LESSON XCVII.9 ON THE AMEBICAN WAR. 1. I CAN NOT, my lords, I will not, join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This,...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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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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A System of Elocution: With Special Reference to Gesture, to the Treatment ...

Andrew Comstock - 1853 - 456 pages
...FIGHT AGAINST THE AMERICANS. Nov. 18, 1777.* (LORD CHATHAM.) I can-not, my lords, 1 1 will1 not \ join in congratulation | on misfortune and disgrace>. |...perilous, and tremen'dous moment : | it is not a time for adula lion : | the smoothness of flattery cannot save us | in this rugged and aw(ful crisis. | It is...
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North American First Class Reader: The Sixth Book of Tower's Series for ...

David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 pages
...the American War, and against employing the Indians as Allies. I CANNOT, my lords, I will not, join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This,...if possible, dispel the delusion and darkness which envelop it, and display, in its full danger and genuine colors, the ruin which is brought to our doors....
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