| Oratory - 1808 - 546 pages
...her by your present or any measures. What then can you do? You cannot conquer, you cannot gain ; but you can ADDRESS : you can lull the. fears and anxieties of the moment into ignorance of the danger that should produce them. I did hope, instead of that false and empty pride',... | |
| Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pages
...present, or by any measures.— What then can you do ?—You cannot conquer—you cannot gain —but you can address ; you can lull the fears and anxieties...them, But, my lords, the time demands the language of (ruth;—rwe must not now apply the flattering unctiqn of servile complaisance or blind complaisance.—In... | |
| John Adolphus - 1810 - 544 pages
...her by any meafures. What then can you do ? You cannot conquer, you cannot gain, but you can addrefs; you can lull the fears and anxieties of the moment into an ignorance of the danger that fhould produce them. But the time demands the language of truth ; we muil not now apply the flattering... | |
| William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1814 - 736 pages
...minister that dare avow it in his place. What is the import of this extraordinary application ? What but you can address ; you can lull the fears and anxieties...lords, the time demands the language of truth : — we mutt not now apply the flattering unction of servile compliance, or blind complaisance. In a just and... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...her by your present or any measures. What then can you do ? You cannot conquer, you cannot gain; but ing acted meritoriously ; ignorance of the danger that should produce them. I did hope, instead of that false and empty pride,... | |
| Benjamin Waterhouse - Great Britain - 1831 - 482 pages
...by your present or by any measures. What then can you do ? You cannot conquer, you cannot gain, but you can address; you can lull the fears and anxieties...just and necessary war, to maintain the rights or honor of my country, I would strip the shirt from my back to support it. But in such a war as this,... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Europe - 1840 - 644 pages
...persuaded to be the mover of a similar amendment. can you do ? You cannot conquer, you cannot gain, but you can address ; you can lull the fears and anxieties...— we must not now apply the flattering unction of serrile compliance, or blind complaisance. In a just and necessary war, to maintain the rights or honour... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1841 - 548 pages
...your present, or by any measures. What, then, can you do? You cannot conquer; you cannot gain; but you can address; you can lull the fears and anxieties...just and necessary war, to maintain the rights or honor of my country, 1 would strip the shirt from my back to support it. But in such a war as this,... | |
| George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1841 - 834 pages
...cannot subdue her by any measures. What, then, can you do ? You cannot conquer, you cannot gain ; but you can address, — you can lull the fears and anxieties...complaisance. In a just and necessary war, to maintain the right or honour of my country, I would strip the shirt from my back to support it ; but in such a war... | |
| John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1841 - 688 pages
...cannot subdue her by any measures. " What then can you do I You cannot conquer, you " cannot gain, but you can address ; you can lull the " fears and anxieties of the moment into an ignorance " of the dangers that should produce them. But the " time demands the language of truth ; we must not " now... | |
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