 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
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1923 - 290 pages
...thus did Johnson inspire his reply : " 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... | |
 | John Earle Uhler - 1926 - 200 pages
...man that made the largest donation. 24. He worked industriously so that finally he did succeed. 25. 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... | |
 | Dominic Barthel - 1927 - 790 pages
...any one of you, shall say: "He belonged to the army of Italy." REPLY TO WALPOLE-wiLLiAM PITT. 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 whose... | |
 | Charles Henry Woolbert, Severina Elaine Nelson - 1927 - 408 pages
...godless foreign wits, who flattered him to his face and ridiculed him behind his back. EDWARD EVERETT. 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... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1928 - 494 pages
...settled business. — FRANCIS BACON. Towering in the confidence of twenty-one. — SAMUEL JOHNSON. 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1961 - 46 pages
...when Mr. Pitt, Earl of Chatham, was assailed because of his age, in the Parliament in London, he said: 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... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1917 - 368 pages
...Lenox's election to the Mayorship in the vein of Pitt, in his defense of the American colonies. "Sir;— the atrocious crime of being a young man, which the...such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall not attempt to palliate nor deny— but . . ." But to the Old Member's pleading: "It is objected that... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1917 - 376 pages
...Lenox's election to the Mayorship in the vein of Pitt, in his defense of the American colonies. "Sir; — the atrocious crime of being a young man, which the...such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall not attempt to palliate nor deny— but ..." But to the Old Member's pleading: "It is objected that... | |
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