 | George Walter Baynham - 1883 - 416 Seiten
...twenty-five he occupied the position of First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir — 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... | |
 | James L. Ohlson - 1883 - 154 Seiten
...speech contains several implied meanings. There is a special sting in the whoever of the last sentence. "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... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 Seiten
...on " Who rules o'er freemen should himself be free." — From Brooke's Cmtacui Vain, lirst edition. The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman lias, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 360 Seiten
...of their former luxuriance of health only by the maladies which riot has produced. xauta,, ch. 17. SIR, 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... | |
 | Robert Steel - 1890 - 680 Seiten
...Gentleman's Magazine, and his hand may therefore be traced in the following language put into the mouth of Pitt : — "Sir, the atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall attempt neither to palliate nor to deny, but content... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1890 - 376 Seiten
...Pope, we have a pronominal object thrown into great andsigniiicant prominence by inversion : — • 'The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman ha.s with such s[>irit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.' (Pitt.) Here... | |
 | Francis Cuthbert Doyle - 1893 - 434 Seiten
...them, without however going beyond the bounds of what is called " parliamentary language". EXAMPLE : " The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall attempt neither to palliate nor to deny ; but content... | |
 | Henry Hardwicke - 1896 - 478 Seiten
...soon as Mr. Walpole sat down, Mr. Pitt got up and replied to his ill-timed reflections as follows : " Sir : 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 Seiten
...style, as illustrated in the next extract, is marked enough. Reply to the Charge of being: Young:. obert Chambers such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny, but content... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 Seiten
...own style, as illustrated in the next extract, is marked enough. Reply to the Charge of being Young. SIR — 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... | |
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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... 
