 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1831 - 630 pagine
...Clarendon sums up an elaborate character of this eminent leader, by declaring that, like Catiline, " He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any miscliief." But his character and conduct, from first to last, evince his conscientiousness, and... | |
 | Francis Lieber - 1831 - 620 pagine
...Clarendon sums up an elaborate character of this eminent leader, by declaring that, like Catiline, " He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischief." But his character and conduct, from first to last, evince his conscientiousness, and... | |
 | George Nugent Grenville Baron Nugent - 1832 - 378 pagine
...compounded her medicines, and latterly seldom left her. She had, as Lord Clarendon somewhere says, ' a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any sort of cookery.' One day The Lioness complained sadly to Mr. A., that Miss Mary would no longer... | |
 | John Macgregor - 1833 - 654 pagine
...truth in respect to that patriot in the last word of the sentence, may be justly said of Le Rat: — " He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any evil." Instead of returning to Makilimakinak, he proceeded with his warriors to the cascades, which... | |
 | John Gorton - 1833 - 818 pagine
...an elaborate character of this eminent leader, by a sentence implying that, like Catiline, " he bad a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief." This language, divested of party spirit, merely implies that, acting upon his own theory,... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1834 - 530 pagine
...have seen drawn and quartered, whom Clarendon paints as possessing beyond all his contemporaries, " a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute," and whom the fervent Baxter revered as able, by his presence and conversation, to give a new charm... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1834 - 532 pagine
...have seen drawn and quartered, whom Clarendon paints as possessing beyond all his contemporaries, " a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute," and whom the fervent Baxter revered as able, by his presence and conversation, to give a new charm... | |
 | John Gorton - 1835 - 822 pagine
...sums up an elaborate character of this eminent leader, by a sentence implying that, like Catiline, " he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief." Thil language, divested of party spirit, merely implies that, acting upon his own theory,... | |
 | Daniel Neal - 1837 - 742 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 unaccountable in one whom his lordship had commended as a person not only... | |
 | Daniel Neal - 1837 - 716 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 unaccountable in one whom his lordship had commended as a person not only... | |
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Hampden, that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischief. 
