unmistrusting

This is the entry about him in Burns's diary: -- "Neil Gow plays -- a short, stout-built, honest Highland figure, with his grey hair shed on (p.  074) his honest social brow; an interesting face marking strong sense, kind open-heartedness, mixed with unmistrusting simplicity; visit his house; Margaret Gow."

Robert Burns John Campbell Shairp 1852

I deserved most of the unhappy hours that have lingered over my head; they were the wages of my labour: but what unprovoked demon, malignant as hell, stole upon the confidence of unmistrusting busy Fate, and dashed your cup of life with undeserved sorrow?

The Letters of Robert Burns Robert Burns 1777

You are right that a bachelor state would have insured me more friends; but, from a cause you will easily guess, conscious peace in the enjoyment of my own mind, and unmistrusting confidence in approaching my

The Letters of Robert Burns Robert Burns 1777

You are right that a bachelor state would have insured me more friends; but from a cause you will easily guess, conscious peace in the enjoyment of my own mind, and unmistrusting confidence in approaching my God, would seldom have been of the number.

The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Robert Burns 1777

She wanted not encouragement: a child might have look’d into his hand — there was such a plainness and simplicity in his playing out what trumps he had — with such an unmistrusting ignorance of the ten-ace — and so naked and defenceless did he sit upon the same sopha with widow Wadman, that a generous heart would have wept to have won the game of him.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

She wanted not encouragement: a child might have look’d into his hand — there was such a plainness and simplicity in his playing out what trumps he had — with such an unmistrusting ignorance of the ten-ace — and so naked and defenceless did he sit upon the same sopha with widow Wadman, that a generous heart would have wept to have won the game of him.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

"You are right that a bachelor state would have ensured me more friends; but, from a cause you will easily guess, conscious peace in the enjoyment of my own mind, and unmistrusting confidence in approaching my God, would seldom have been of the number.

Robert Burns John Campbell Shairp 1852