 | Lucius Sergius CATILINA - 1795 - 344 pagine
...invite, solicit, and inveigle, all whom he thought fit for his purposes; and what he could he dared ; he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute. He had the exact measure of every man's abilities, and could assign to each his proper station. He... | |
 | Eccentric biography - 1801 - 352 pagine
...in these remarkable terms : — " In a word, what was said of Cinna, might well be applied to him; he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a heart to execute any mischief." The grandson of the great Hampden, and knight of the shire for the... | |
 | 1826 - 608 pagine
...considered or represented his wisdom, eloquence, and valour, as exerted to produce ' mischief. ' f A head to contrive, a tongue ' to persuade, and a hand to execute, ' are the highest qualities of human nature. That they were united by Hampden, we may firmly believe,... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - 1805 - 512 pagine
...metaphorically to signify energy or power, as the heart is to signify affection, or the head intellect. '* He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief," says a noble historian, of the leader of a hostile party ; by which, it is to be presumed... | |
 | n. hooke - 1806 - 518 pagine
...many occasions, iu the war of Hannibal, taken to govern'the State) was a man of singular strength bpth of body and mind, but of a disposition extremely vicious....other men's wealth, lavish of his own; violent in his passions, eloquent enough, but not endowed with much wisdom. His boundless ambition hurried him into... | |
 | Sallust - 1807 - 474 pagine
...vite, solicit, and inveigle, all whom he thought fit for his purposes; and what he could he dared ; he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute. He had the exact measure of every man's abilities, and could assign to each his proper station. He... | |
 | 1811 - 448 pagine
...was actuated by ambition, or by zeal for his country's welfare. Lord Clarendon observes of him, that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a heart to execute any mischief. The events which followed the death of Hampden induce us to believe... | |
 | John Watkins - 1807 - 1006 pagine
...was shot by a pistol in a skirmish in Oxfordshire in 1G4.J. Lord Clarendon observes of him, that " he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a heart to execute, any mischief." — ClarfaJan'j Hut. oftbt RcleUio«. 1 1л.. i SA, a mohammedan doctor,... | |
 | 1809 - 304 pagine
...and died the 24th of June, 1643. Lord Clarendon has " compared him to Cinna, of whom it was said, " he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischief." 39. JOHN PYM, ESQ. Engraved ly Houbraken,from a Picture in the Possession of Thomas... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 544 pagine
...than it was condoled in the other. In a word, what was said of Cinna might well be applied to him : he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischief, or," as the historian says elsewhere, " any good." Thus is Hampden described by Clarendon,... | |
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Hampden, that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischief. 
