 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 634 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." * At home his career, though never, as I think, inspired by a high and pervading... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1853 - 512 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... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 pagine
...concern for yourself, that I have for you. Adieu. LETTER CCVII. DEAR BOY, London, December 12. OS 1749. head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischxef. Lord Clarendon, in his history, says of Mr John Hampden, that fie had a I shali not now... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1854 - 300 pagine
...immortalibus dari nihil potest: alterum, ut ita cuique eveniat, ut de republicâ quisque mereatur. NOTES. THE FIRST ORATION AGAINST CATILINE. INTRODUCTION....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... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1854 - 550 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... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1856 - 500 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... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1857 - 310 pagine
...ita cuique eveniat, ••'< NOTES THE FIRST ORATION AGAINST CATILINE. INTRODUCTION. LUCIOS SERGIDS CATILINA, of an illustrious family (from which consuls...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... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1857 - 490 pagine
...recognition. A friend may have spoken of him with literal truth when he declared that he possessed " a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute " in masterly style what he attempted ; but the beauty and desirableness of these endowments are much... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1857 - 492 pagine
...recognition. A friend may have spoken of him with literal truth when he declared that ho possessed " a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade. and a hand to execute " in masterly style what he attempted : but the beauty and desirableness of these endowments are much... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1857 - 486 pagine
...recognition. A friend may have spoken of him with literal truth when he declared that he possessed " a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute " in masterly style what he attempted ; but the beauty and desirableness of these endowments are much... | |
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Hampden, that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischief. 
