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Anecdotes of the Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Earl of Chatham ... - Page 268
by John Almon - 1810
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The United States of America: Their History from the Earliest ..., Volume 1

Hugh Murray - United States - 1844 - 408 pages
...he wished the young men of this country would imitate them. The oppressive acts must be repealed. " I pledge myself for it, that you will in the end repeal them. I stake my reputation on it. I will consent to be taken for an idiot, if they are not." It is better then to concede with a good...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 113

American periodicals - 1872 - 862 pages
...repeal them. I pledge myself for it that you will in the end repeal them. I stake my reputation on it. I will consent to be taken for an idiot if they are...not finally repealed. Avoid, then, this humiliating, degrading necessity." Two of his best speeches were fortunately reported by Hugh Boyd, and one of these...
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The United States of America: Their History from the Earliest ..., Volume 1

Hugh Murray - United States - 1844 - 410 pages
...repealed. " I pledge myself for it, that you will in the end repeal them. I stake my reputation on it. I will consent to be taken for an idiot, if they are not." It is better then to concede with a good grace, than to hold out till compelled by necessity. Yet he...
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Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added, the ...

William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1845 - 558 pages
...when we must. I say we must necessarily unJo these violent oppressive acts ; they must be repealed — you will repeal them ; I pledge myself for it. that...the end repeal them ; I stake my reputation on it— I will consent to be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally repealed. Avoid, then, this humiliating,...
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Library of Oratory: Embracing Select Speeches of Celebrated ..., Volume 3

Great Britain - 1845 - 554 pages
...when we must. I say we must necessarily undo these violent oppressive acts; they must be repealed — you will repeal them; I pledge myself for it, that...the end repeal them ; I stake my reputation on it — I will consent to be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally, repealed. Avoid, then, this humiliating,...
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The history of England, from the accession of George iii., 1760 ..., Volume 2

Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 448 pages
...let us retract while we can, not when we must. These violent and oppressive acts must be repealed : you will repeal them ; I pledge myself for it, that...the end repeal them ; I stake my reputation on - it ! I will consent to be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally repealed ! avoid then this humiliating,...
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School Reader: 4th book

Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 pages
...when we must. I say we must necessarily undo these violent, oppressive acts. They MUST be repealed. You WILL repeal them. I pledge myself for it, that...will in the end repeal them. I stake my reputation on ii. I will consent to be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally repealed. 3. Avoid, then, this...
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The Speeches of the Right Honourable the Earl of Chatham in the Houses of ...

William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Great Britain - 1848 - 208 pages
...we must I say we must necessarily undo these violent oppressive acts :* they must be repealed ; — you will repeal them ; I pledge myself for it, that...the end repeal them ; I stake my reputation on it : — I will consent to be taken for an idiot if they are not finally repealed.f Avoid, then, this...
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Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine to which is Added, the ...

1851 - 560 pages
...we must. I say we must necessarily undo these violent oppressive acts; they must be repealed—you will repeal them; I pledge myself for it, that you...will in the end repeal them; I stake my reputation on it—I will consent to be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally repealed. Avoid, then, this humiliating,...
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History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles ...

Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1851 - 572 pages
...them ; I pledge myself for it that you will in " the end repeal them. I stake my reputation on " it. I will consent to be taken for an idiot if " they are not finally repealed. — Avoid then this VOL. VI. D CHAP, " humiliating disgraceful necessity To t , " conclude, my Lords, if the Ministers...
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