 The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease...  Everybody's Writing-desk Book - Page 6by Charles Nisbet, Don Lemon - 1892 - 310 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1901 - 480 pages
...of language, or appearance of zeal, honesty, or compassion. WILLIAM PITT, ESQUIRE, replied: — Sir, the atrocious crime of being a young man, which the...with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate, nor deny, but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - 1901 - 614 pages
...world. Chatham. William Pitt, Earl of (England, 1708-1778.) The Crime of Being a Toung Man — Sir: The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the...such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; — but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those... | |
 | W. V. Byars - 1901 - 616 pages
...world. Chatham. William Pitt, Earl of (England, 1708-1778.) The Crime of Being a Young Man — Sir : The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the...such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; — but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 450 pages
...and enormous principles. REPLY TO WALPOLE DELIVERED IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, MARCH 6, 1741 SIB, — The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the...such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny, but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 pages
...to the Charge of being Young. SIR — The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable d keep the hiccups from the heart. With good and ǀ 0 U neither attempt to palliate nor deny, but content myself with wishing that I may he one of those whose... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 pages
...the Charge of being: Young:. SIR — The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable 902 neither attempt to palliate nor deny, but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1902 - 714 pages
...and flights of oratory are pardonable in young men, but in no others." Pitt's reply — beginning, " The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the...such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny " — effectually settled the old Conservative, and showed the... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - 1905 - 872 pages
...eloquent appealf in their lxihai/— wiu born Nov. 15, 1708. Sir, — the atrocious crime of being u young man, which the honorable gentleman has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny ; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose... | |
 | Jonathan Rigdon - 1903 - 312 pages
...Not a single region that the Indians can now call their own do the winds of the Atlantic fan. (16) The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honorable gentleman has with such spirit of decency charged upon me, I shall attempt neither to palliate nor to deny. (17) The jingling of the... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - 1905 - 1024 pages
...January 1741, he delivered the speech reported by Johnson for the 'Gentleman's Magazine,' beginning, "The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the...with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny." But it is probable that there is more of Johnson than of Pitt... | |
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