 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
 | James Gregory Mumford - 1912 - 300 pages
...serene contentment. Build me no fires; let me tend mine own." CHAPTER VIII Reflections — Ambrose Pare "'THE atrocious crime of being a young man, which...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... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - 1912 - 916 pages
...January 1741, he delivered the speech reported by Johnson for the 'Gentleman's Magazine,1 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... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 pages
...Pettie his Pleasure. THE CHIME OF YOUTH 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... | |
 | William Grant - 1913 - 232 pages
...WILLIAM PITT Passage from Reply to Walpole 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... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - 1914 - 372 pages
...weakly productions of his abusive contemporaries. WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM0 REPLY TO WALPOLE° THE atrocious crime of being a young man, which the...such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate or deny ; but content myself with wishing that I may be one 5 of those... | |
 | Walter Rippmann (ed) - 1914 - 152 pages
...the Present Discontents. Sir, — The^ atrocious crime of being a young man, 2 A which the honourable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither 4 attempt to palliate nor deny, but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those... | |
 | Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke - 1918 - 888 pages
...became famous and has always held a place in collections of declamations — the one beginning — The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the...has with such spirit and decency charged upon me. This speech, however, was reported on hearsay by Dr. Johnson, and doubtless contains more mannerisms... | |
 | Walter Ripman - 1920 - 408 pages
...of the Preset:t Discontents. 2A Sir, the atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall peither attempt to palliate nor deny, but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1921 - 506 pages
...with the people, and is often called the "Great Commoner." He was created " Earl of Chatham " in 1766. 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 hoping that I may be one of those whose... | |
 | State Bar Association of North Dakota - 1921 - 470 pages
...generation. "I like that sonorous sentence of Dr. Johnston, in which he couches Pitt's reply to Walpole : 'The atrocious crime of being a young man which the...gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged on me, I shall neither attempt to palliate or deny ; but content myself with wishing that I may be... | |
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