 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...  Orators of England - Page 129edited by - 1900Full view - About this book
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 396 pages
...Vnrlctle*. 1. The universe — is an emoiré; and God — its sovereign. 2. The smoothness of flatlery — cannot now avail, — cannot save us, in this rugged and awful crisis. 3. I had much rather see all — industrious and enlightened, — than to see one half of mankind —... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 390 pages
...congratulation on misfortune, and disgrace. This, mv lords, is a perilous, and tremendous molient. It is not a time for adulation: the smoothness of flattery — cannot save UH, in this rugged, and awful crisis. It is now necessary, tounstruct the throne, in the language... | |
 | Hugh Gawthrop - Recitations - 1847 - 184 pages
...EMPLOYING THE INDIANS. I CANNOT, my Lords, I will not, join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This, my Lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment....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... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...CANNOT, my lords, I will not, join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This, my lords, is ft 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 the throne in the language... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...Indians as Allies. I CANNOT, my lords, I will not, join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This, my lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment....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... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 pages
...disappointments and defeats. I cannot, my lords, I will not, join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This, my lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment...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... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...THE AMERICAN WAR. I CANNOT, my Lords, I will not, join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This, my Lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment....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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 446 pages
...FINISHED, sir, at last; a NARROWER house — a house of CLAY — your palace for another day." 710. The smoothness of flattery cannot NOW avail — cannot SAVE us in this rugged and awfwl crisis. 711. What PROFIT hath a man of all his labor, which he taktth under the sun? 712. IS... | |
 | Joshua Leavitt - 1850 - 324 pages
...THE AMERICAN WAR. I CANNOT, my lords, I will not join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This, my lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment....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... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...THE INDIANS IN IT. I CANNOT, my Lords, I will not, join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This, my Lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment....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... | |
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