It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending.
The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

