he would never have undertaken to speak before the most august Assembly in the World; without
Modesty
he would have pleaded the Cause he had taken upon him, tho it had appeared ever so Scandalous.
From what has been said, it is plain, that
Modesty
and
Assurance
are both amiable, and may very well meet in the same Person. When they are thus mixed and blended together, they compose what we endeavour to express when we say a
modest Assurance
; by which we understand the just Mean between