 | Thomas Roscoe - 1837 - 332 pagine
...manoeuvres of his enemies. Of this last brave asserter of his country's rights it was said, " that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a heart to execute any mischief." But besides * Owen Glyndwr was bred to the bar in Gray's Inn, and in... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1838 - 324 pagine
...the extent of Clarendon's supposed calumny of Hampden, applying to him the character of China — " He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief." almost unmingled zeal for the public good and loyal attachment to the crown. I doubt... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1838 - 680 pagine
...Commons reversed in his favour Clarendon's 1747. character of Hampden ; saying that " Lord Ches" terfield had a head to contrive, a tongue to " persuade, and a hand to execute, any worthy " action."* At home his career, though never, as I think, inspired by a high and pervading... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1838 - 670 pagine
...Commons reversed in his favour Clarendon's 1747. character of Hampden ; saying that " Lord Ches" terfield had a head to contrive, a tongue to " persuade, and a hand to execute, any worthy " action."* At home his career, though never, as I think, inspired by a high and pervading... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1839 - 506 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... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1841 - 462 pagine
...Commons reversed in his favour Clarendon's character of Hampden ; saying, that " Lord Chesterfield had a head to contrive, a ' ' tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any worthy action (1 ) ." At home his career, though never, as I think, inspired by a high and pervading... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1843 - 324 pagine
...quisque mereatur. NOTES. THE FIRST ORATION AGAINST CATILINE. INTRODUCTION. Locius SEROICS CATILISA, of an illustrious family (from which consuls and military...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... | |
 | John Jaques - 1843 - 426 pagine
...character given by Lord Clarendon of Hampden : — " 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." In considering the claims of Lord George Sackville, it is to be noticed that, although... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pagine
...Clarendon, indeed, has summed up an elaborate view of his qualities with the strong sentence that " he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischief:" but this, we must recollect, is the language of one of the most zealous defenders of... | |
 | Henry Brown - 1844 - 526 pagine
...this assertion, is exceedingly questionable. Hampden, who, as Lord Clarendon observes, possessed " a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute ;" and Cromwell, who sought the office of high constable of England, in order to keep the peace, were... | |
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Hampden, that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischief. 
