 | George Bancroft - 1844 - 514 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... | |
 | 1845 - 608 pagine
...of Commons reversed in 1ш favor 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." — At home, his career, though never, as I think, inspired by a high and pervading... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1845 - 628 pagine
...of 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." At home his career, though never, as I think, inspired by a high and pervading... | |
 | Joseph Hewlett - 1846 - 318 pagine
...rebellious spirit. He is bitter against the king and of a fierce temper, and, like Cinna of old, has a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief." " Forward, sir, with all speed," said Alick Pearson. " See your prisoners safely over... | |
 | Joseph Thomas J. Hewlett - 1846 - 1170 pagine
...rebellious spirit. He is bitter against the king and of a fierce temper, and, like Cinna of old, has a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief." " Forward, sir, with all speed," said Alick Pearson. " See your prisoners safely over... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1847 - 492 pagine
...London, December 12, OS 1749. DEAR. BOY, 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... | |
 | Edward Parry - 1847 - 378 pagine
...a man whose character, had it been drawn by a Clarendon, would have been summed up in a few words, "He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a heart to execute any undertaking." Glyndwr was quietly studying law, when it was notified to him that... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1850 - 298 pagine
...quisque mereatur. NOTES. THE FIRST ORATION AGAINST CATILINE. INTRODUCTION. Lucius SF.RGIUS CATII.INA, of an illustrious family (from which consuls and military...hunger, and want of rest ; of a spirit daring and i nsidious ; expert in all the arts of disguise and dissimulation : greedily covetous of other men's... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1851 - 298 pagine
...annos prope viginti, hoc ipso in templo, negavi posse mortem immaturam esse consulari ; quanto verius nunc negabo, seni? Mihi vero, Patres Conscripti, jam...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... | |
 | William Cathrall - 1851 - 354 pagine
...the occasion are preserved." Of this last brave asserter of his country's rights it is said " that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a heart to execute any mischief! But besides these bold and dexterous qualities, which perhaps belonged,... | |
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Hampden, that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischief. 
