 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
 | John Almon - 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 is brought to ' our doors. ' This, my Lords, is our duty ; it is the ' proper funftion of this noble aflembly, fit' ting, as we... | |
 | William Belsham - 1795 - 496 pages
...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 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... | |
 | 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 is brought to our doors. ' This, my Lords, is our duty; it is the proper funftion of this noble affembly, fitting, as we do,... | |
 | Hugh Boyd - 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 is brought to our doors. " This, my Lords, is our duty ; it is the proper funftion of this noble aflembly, fitting as we do... | |
 | charles mayo, l.l.b. - 1804 - 570 pages
...is not a time 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 in the lan" guage of truth. We must dispel the delusion and the darkness which " envelop it; and display in... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 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... | |
 | Caleb Bingham - 1807 - 312 pages
...•As to conquest, therefore, my lords, I repeat, it iimpossible. You may swell every expense, and even effort, still more extravagantly ; pile and accumulate...every assistance you can buy or borrow ; traffic and bartev THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR. S65 barter with every little pitiful German Prince, who -selln his subjects... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 514 pages
...It is not a time for adulation. The smoothness of flattery cannot now avail ; cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct...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*... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 pages
...lament, what may have happened since. As to conquest, therefore, my lords, I repeat, it is impossible. You may swell every expense, and every effort, still...accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow ; traffick and barter with every little pitiful German prince, that sells and sends his subjects to... | |
 | 1808 - 546 pages
...tremendous moment : 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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