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" 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 necessary to instruct... "
Mirabeau's Letters During His Residence in England: With Anecdotes, Maxims ... - Page 213
by Honoré-Gabriel de Riqueti comte de Mirabeau - 1832
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Anecdotes of the Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Earl ..., Volume 2

John Almon - Great Britain - 1793 - 542 pages
...language of truth. We muft difpel ' the delufion and the darknefs which enve' lope it ; and difplay, in its full danger and ' true colours, the ruin that...' This, my Lords, is our duty ; it is the ' proper funftion of this noble aflembly, fit' ting, as we do, upon our honours in this ' houfe, the hereditary...
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Memoirs of the Reign of George III to the Session of Parliament ..., Volume 2

William Belsham - Great Britain - 1795 - 496 pages
...it is not a time for adulation ; the smoothness of flattery cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne in the language of TRUTH. We must, if possible, dispel the delusion and darkness which envelop it; and display in its full danger, and...
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Anecdotes of the Life of the Right Hon. William Pitt, Earl of ..., Volume 2

John Almon - 1797 - 440 pages
...the language of truth. We muft difpel the delufion and the darknefs which envelope it; and difplay, in its full danger and true colours, the ruin that...doors. ' This, my Lords, is our duty; it is the proper funftion of this noble affembly, fitting, as we do, upon our honours in this houfe, the hereditary...
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Miscellaneous Works of Hugh Boyd: The Author of the Letters of Junius, Volume 1

Hugh Boyd - Great Britain - 1800 - 638 pages
...of truth. — We muft difpel the delufion and the darknefs which envelop 3 envelop it, and difplay, in its full danger and true colours, the ruin that...doors. " This, my Lords, is our duty ; it is the proper funftion of this noble aflembly, fitting as we do upon our honours in this houfe, the hereditary council...
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Annals of Great Britain: From the Ascension of George III, to the Peace of ...

Thomas Campbell - Great Britain - 1807 - 556 pages
...the impolicy, and the utter hopelessness, of the war. ' It is now necessary,' said Lord Chatham, ' to instruct the throne in the language of truth ; we must dispel the delusion and the darkness which envelop it, and disFbl. LE e CHAP, play the ruin that is brought to our doors. Can xIIL the minister...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 5

Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...for adulation. The smoothness of flattery cannot now avail ; cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne...We must dispel the delusion and the darkness which envelop it; and display, in its full danger and true colours, the ruin that is brought to our doors....
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The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches ..., Volume 2

Oratory - 1808 - 546 pages
...it is not a time for adulation : the smoothness of lattery cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne, in the language of TRUTH. We must, if possible, dispel the delusion and darkness which envelope it ; and display, in its full danger and...
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Anecdotes of the life of ... William Pitt, earl of Chatham [by J ..., Volume 2

John Almon - 1810 - 380 pages
...for adulation. The smoothness of flattery cannot now avail— cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the Throne...language of truth. We must dispel the delusion and the jdarkness which envelope it; and display, in its full danger and true colours, the ruin that is brought...
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The British Plutarch [by T. Mortimer].

Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pages
...instruct the throne in the language of truth.—We must dispel the delusion and the darkness which envelop it; and display, in its full danger and true colours,...the ruin that is brought to our doors. «' This, my Iprds, is pur duty; it is the proper function of this noble assembly, sitting as we do upon our honors...
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The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces ...

Caleb Bingham - History - 1817 - 314 pages
...for adulation. The smoothness of flattery cannot now avail ; cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne...We must dispel the delusion and the darkness which envelop it ; and display, in its full danger and true colours, the ruin that it has brought to our...
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