 | Robert Cochrane - Orators - 1877 - 560 pages
...mo the justice to own I advised them to do it ; but, notwithstanding (for I love to be explicit), / oracle or not methinks I plainly discover the traces of an overruling influence. There is a clause in the Act of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1883 - 396 pages
...(then Mr. Pitt) in the debate on the Address, January 1 4, 1 766, containing the wellknown passage, ' I cannot give them my confidence : pardon me, Gentlemen...confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom,' &c. Cp. Lord Chesterfield to his son, Letters, vol. iv. p. 401. ' Here is a new political arch almost... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Great Britain - 1878 - 514 pages
...them my confidence. 1'ardon me, gentlemen, confidence is a plant of slow growth in ail aged boaom. Youth is the season of credulity ; by comparing events...with each other, reasoning from effects to causes, methinks I plainly discover the traces of an over-ruling influence." Again: — "I have no local attachments;... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Great Britain - 1878 - 516 pages
...contained some characteristic touches. As when, turning towards the new Ministers, he said : — " I love to be explicit — I cannot give them my confidence. Pardon me, gentlemen, confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged boaom. Youth is the season of credulity; by comparing... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 518 pages
...contained some characteristic touches. As when, turning towards the new Ministers, he said : — " I love to be explicit — I cannot give them my confidence. Pardon me, gentlemen, confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom. Youth is the season of credulity; by comparing... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Forensic orations - 1880 - 552 pages
...would engage. These will now do me the justice to own, I advised them to do it ; but, notwithstanding, to be explicit, I cannot give them my confidence. Pardon me, gentlemen, confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged •iosom. Youth is the season ' of credulity. By comparing... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Great Britain - 1882 - 614 pages
...openly declared his want of confidence in them. ' Confidence,' he said in a characteristic phrase, ' is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom; youth is the season of credulity.' The reasons for his conduct were probably very various. Much must be allowed for a natural character... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1884 - 340 pages
...the justice to own, I advised them to do it — but, notwithstanding [for I love to be explicit], / cannot give them my confidence. Pardon me, gentlemen...with each other, reasoning from effects to causes, methinks I plainly discover the traces of an overruling influence.86 There is a clause in the Act of... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams, John Alden - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1884 - 360 pages
...the justice to own, I advised them to do it — but, notwithstanding [for I love to be explicit], / cannot give them my confidence. Pardon me, gentlemen...with each other, reasoning from effects to causes, methinks I plainly discover the traces of an overruling influence.88 There is a clause in the Act of... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1884 - 346 pages
...the justice to own, I advised them to do it — but, notwithstanding [for I love to be explicit], / cannot give them my confidence. Pardon me, gentlemen...with each other, reasoning from effects to causes, methinks I plainly discover the traces of an overruling influence.28 There is a clause in the Act of... | |
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I love to be explicit ; I cannot give them my confidence. Pardon me, gentlemen (bowing to the ministry), confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom : youth is the season of credulity... 
