 He was not the master, but the slave of his own speech. So little self-command had he when once he felt the impulse, that he did not like to take part in a debate when his mind was full of an important secret of state. "I must sit still," he once said...  A Short History of the English People - Page 1646by John Richard Green - 1894 - 1906 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - Bible - 1840 - 644 pages
...important secret of state. ' I must sit still,' he once said to Lord Shelhurne on such an occasion; 'for when once I am up, everything that is in my mind comes out.' " " He spoke without premeditation; but his speech followed the course of his own thoughts, and not... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 512 pages
...important secret of state. ' I must sit still,' he once said to Lord Shelburne on such an occasion ; ' for when once I am up, everything that is in my mind comes out.' Yet he was not a great debater. That he should not have been so when first he entered the House of... | |
 | American periodicals - 1872 - 862 pages
...end without knowing what you have said. " I must sit still," he once «aid aside to Lord Shelburne, " for, when once I am up, everything that is in my mind comes out." This habit of giving the rein to hie impulsiveness and diverging from the ar<*ument at will, spoiled... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1851 - 420 pages
...important secret of state. " I must sit still," he once said to Lord Shelburne on such an occasion ; " for when once I am up, everything that is in my mind comes out." — Ibid. Hume has truly characterized Sir Robert Walpole, who loved power so much, that he could not... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 452 pages
...apprised of an important secret of state, " I must not speak to-night," he whispered to Lord Shelburne, " for when once I am up, everything that is " in my mind comes out." No man could grapple more powerfully with an argument : but he wisely remembered that a taunt is in... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 470 pages
...apprised of an important secret of state, "I must not speak to-night," he whispered to Lord Shelburne, "for when once I am up, "everything that is in my mind comes out." No man could grapple more powerfully with an argument: but he wisely remembered that a taunt is in... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 458 pages
...apprised of an important secret of state, " I must not speak to-night," he whispered to Lord Shelburne, " for when once I am up, everything that is " in my mind comes out." No man could grapple more powerfully with an argument : but he wisely remembered that a taunt is in... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 434 pages
...end without knowing what you have said. ' I must sit still,' he once said aside to Lord Shelburne, ' for, when once I am up, everything that is in my mind comes out.' This habit of giving the rein to his impulsiveness and diverging from the argument at will, spoiled... | |
 | John Timbs - Biography - 1860 - 432 pages
...important secret of state. ' I must sit still,' he once said to Lord Shelburne on such an occasion, ' for when once I am up, everything that is in my mind comes out.' " It is singular, (adds Lord Macaulay,) that Pitt, a man of great parts, of great fluency, of great... | |
 | Graduated series - 1861 - 504 pages
...apprised of an important secret of state, " I must not speak to-night," he whispered to Lord Shelbourne, " for when once I am up everything that is in my mind comes out." No man could grapple more powerfully with an argument ; but he wisely remembered that a taunt is in... | |
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