 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1812 - 1062 pagine
...character, had it been left to be drawn by a Clarendon, would have been summed up in a few few words, " he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a heart to execute any mischief." OWEN GLYNDWR*. On the north side of the Dee, about three miles from... | |
 | John Britton - 1812 - 1070 pagine
...character, had it been left to be drawn by a Clarendon, would have been summed up in a few few words, " he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a heart to execute any mischief." • OWEN GLYNDWR*. On the north side of the Dee, about three miles... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 540 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,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 540 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,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 524 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 noble historian elsewhere observes) any good.' This character, as Mrs. Macaulay... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pagine
...it was condoled in the other. laaword, what was said of Cinna might well be applied to him; he had & head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief; or, as the historian says elsewhere, any good.' 1 ' " Clarendon," remarks Mrs. Macaulay.... | |
 | Daniel Neal - 1817 - 574 pagine
...fought against the court, lord Clarendon says (if this be not an interpolation of the editors) that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief. § Which is very unaccountli or indifference, or infidelity ; and in declaring (hem to... | |
 | Daniel Neal - 1817 - 574 pagine
...fought against the court, lord Clarendon says (if this be not an interpolation of the editors) that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief.^ Which is very umiccount" or indifference, or infidelity ; and in declaring them to be... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1817 - 522 pagine
...talents fitted him to shine in courts, or camps, or popular assemblies. He had a heart to conceive, a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute schemes of the most extensive utility to bis country, or rather to mankind; for his enlarged philanthropy,... | |
 | John Macdiarmid - 1820 - 472 pagine
...as any man could deserve to be. 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." He was killed in a skirmish in 1643. Vol. I. 185 ; II. 265. JOHN PYM. No man had more... | |
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Hampden, that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischief. 
