Fatal Crisis

3 mentions.

1809 - 1884

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1809 to 1884

three mentions

over 75 years

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Let us for the sake of example trace back the history of France to the La Valieres, the Montespans, the bigotted Maintenon, through the profligate period of the regency, down to the Pompadours, and the wretched du Barrè, who lived to suffer in that Revolution, which was hastening to it's Fatal Crisis, with the velocity of a comet, unperceived by those who were indulging in their gorgeous vices.

Permission of that description, even if actually accorded, could by no means excuse the deliberate action theretofore taken by your Lordship, which, as is fully manifested by your letter of the 19th instant, as well as your published letter therein referred to, had at the very moment brought about a very dangerous and almost Fatal Crisis, and which, in your Lordship's letter, you seem quite ready to repeat upon any similar occasion.

But they say, referring to the permission given to him— "A permission of that kind, even if actually accorded, could by no means excuse the deliberate action taken by your Lordship, which, as is fully manifested by your Lordship's letter of the 19th instant, as well as your published letter therein referred to, had at the very moment brought about a very dangerous and almost Fatal Crisis".


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