"Mr. Pitt has gain'd himself great Credit by his two or three last Speeches. His Language and Oratory amazes, but the sensible thinking People are astonished at his knowledge. The Opposition even cannot help expressing Astonishment. Your Papa says that he is a most wonderful young man. His Passions are all guided by Reason, with a mind so improved, such Discretion, and so perfect a Knowledge of the Commerce, Funds, and Government of the Country that one must imagine to hear him on these subjects, that he had the experience of fifty years, and at the same Time so clever, lively, and agreeable in Society, without the least assuming, that it is impossible to know him without liking him and wondering at his Knowledge and Parts."
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Lady Gower to Granville Leveson-Gower (19 February 1785), quoted in Lord Granville Leveson Gower (First Earl Granville): Private Correspondence, 1781–1821, Vol. I, ed. Castalia Countess Granville (1916), pp. 5-6
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