 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...  Selected Essays - Page 57by Abraham Hayward - 1879Full view - About this book
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Charles Butler - Law - 1824 - 430 pages
...perilous and tremendous moment — it is not " a time for adulation — the smoothness of flattery " cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. "...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... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1824 - 372 pages
...— it is not a time for adulation " — the smoothness of flattery cannot save us in this rug" ged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct " the throne in the language of truth. We must, if pos" sible, dispel the delusion and darkness which envelope " it ; and display in its full danger... | |
 | James Robins - Great Britain - 1824 - 490 pages
...not join," said he, " in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. The smoothness of flattery cannot avail- — cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is necessary to instruct the throne in the language of truth. We must dispel the delusion and the darkness... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...a perilous and trt • ^ndous moment : it is not a time for adulation ; the smoothness of flattery cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It...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... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...misfortune upon us. This, my lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment! It is not a time for adulation. Tne smoothness of flattery cannot now avail; cannot save...and display, in its full danger and true colours, th« ruin that is brought to our doors, j •This, my lords, is our duty. It is the proper function... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 pages
...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...instruct the throne in the language of truth. We must, if pos20 sible, dispel the delusion and darkness which envelope it; and display in its full danger... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - Great Britain - 1828 - 474 pages
...injustice, the impolicy, and the utter hopelessness of the war. " It is now necessary," said his lordship, " to instruct the throne in the language of truth : we must dispel the delusion and darkness which envelop it, and display the ruin that is brought to our doors. Can the minister of the... | |
 | John Barber - Elocution - 1828 - 310 pages
...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 time to instruct the throne in the language of Truth. We must, if possible, dispel the darkness and... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1830 - 752 pages
...of Lord Chatham, " the present is a perilous and tremendous moment. Flattery cannot save us in thia awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the Throne in the language of truth ; we must if possible dispel the darkness and delusion which envelope it, and display in its true light and genuine... | |
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