 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1859 - 340 pagine
...annos prope viginti, hoc ipso in templo, negavi posse mortem immaturam esse consulari ; quanta verius nunc negabo, seni ? Mihi vero, Patres Conscripti,...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 Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1862 - 626 pagine
...Clarendon, speaking of our own great, patriot statesman Hampden, he alone had " a heart to conceive, a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute it ;" and who then died just as he had set his se.al on the undertaking which, from being the dream... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - 1864 - 368 pagine
...even his enemies lauded his virtue and integrity, and still more the invectives of Clarendon, — " he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief" — though allude to some contrivance for turning a spit while meat was being roasted,... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - 1864 - 370 pagine
...even his enemies lauded his virtue and integrity, and still more the invectives of Clarendon, — " he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief" — though allude to some contrivance for turning a spit while meat was being roasted,... | |
 | Belgravia - 1871 - 558 pagine
...all eulogies when coming from a defeated enemy. It is stolen from Sallust's character of Cataline : ' He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief.' With Cromwell's great brain to direct them, what a prime minister would Pym have been,... | |
 | 1867 - 234 pagine
...letters are beautiful specimens of the art epistolary, — a few extracts from which are subjoined. "With a. head to contrive, a tongue to persuade and a hand to execute, Mr. Fiske would have honorably filled a much higher position in political life, than he ever attained.... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1870 - 290 pagine
...[Dee. 9th, 1749.] HAMPDEN A LESSON. — 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... | |
 | Charles Patrick Fox - 1871 - 292 pagine
...be anything. Hampden a, Lesson. — " 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... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1872 - 474 pagine
...London, December the 12th, 0. S. 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pagine
...Vol. vi. 1 70 Clarendon. — L ovelace. EDWARD HYDE CLARENDON. 1608 — 1674. He [Sir John Hambden] had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief.1 History of the Rebellion, Vol. iii. Book vii. § 84. RICHARD LOVELACE. 1618-1658. Oh... | |
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Hampden, that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischief. 
