 | John Macdiarmid - 1820 - 468 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... | |
 | Paul Allen - 1822 - 540 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 his country, or rather to mankind, for his enlarged philanthropy,... | |
 | Paul Allen - 1822 - 536 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 his country, or rather to mankind, for his enlarged philanthropy,... | |
 | James Mitchell - 1823 - 654 pagine
...Buckinghamshire, June is, 1643. Lord Clarendon's character of him is that which Sallust gave of Catiline : " He had a head to contrive, a. tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief." HANAN, a considerable town of Hesse-Cassel. In 1792, Hanan was attacked, but not occupied... | |
 | Martin M'Dermot, Martin MacDermot - 1823 - 438 pagine
...cannot, therefore, see what application the passage quoted by Mr. Knight has to the one in question, " He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief." Here there is no address to the hand, nor is it considered as something distinct from... | |
 | Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1827 - 390 pagine
...London, December the 12th, OS 1749. LORD Clarendon, in his history, says of Mr. John Hampden, that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischief. I shall not now enter into the justness of this character of Mr. Hampden, to whose brave... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1828 - 598 pagine
...character of Hambden, that while the author applies to him in conclusion what was said of Cinna, ' that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any VoL. xxvn. — No. 61. 39 mischief,' every line shows that the historian believed him to be a man... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1828 - 598 pagine
...character of Hambden, that while the author applies to him in conclusion what was said of Cinna, ' that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any VOL. XXVII. — No. 61. 39 / mischief,' every line shows that the historian believed him to be... | |
 | John Parker Lawson - 1829 - 590 pagine
...which the noble historian has expressed of this justly celebrated man is sufficiently comprehensive. " He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischief." William Pym was a man hardly less remarkable than Hampden, by whom he was much influenced... | |
 | Nathaniel Hooke - 1830 - 606 pagine
...capable of forming and executing the design of subLucius SERGIUS CATILINA,P of an illustrious saiiust. et family (from which consuls, and military tribunes...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... | |
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Hampden, that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischief. 
