 | George Bancroft - 1876 - 584 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 Baxter revered as able, by his presence and conversation, to give a new charm to the rest... | |
 | 1877 - 798 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1881 - 892 pagine
...just Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust. 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 cf f/u Rebellion, Vol. iii. tiuok vii. § 84, RICHARD LOVELACE. 1618-1658.... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 pagine
...And while it satisfies, it censures too. o. YOUNO— Night Thoughts. Night IX. Line 1245. MISCHIEF. He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief. p. EDWARD HYDE CLARENDON — Histnry of the Rebellion. Vol. ill. Bk. ЛГП. Sec. 84.... | |
 | Hanover College - 1883 - 136 pagine
...his hire in peace and power to work." festus. 6. The Bar. — HON. JAMES B. SWING, AM, Class of '76. "He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, And a hand to execute any mischief." Clarendon. Hist A Rebellion, Book 7, 7. The Medical Profession. — ADDISON W. BARE,... | |
 | 1883 - 502 pagine
...inebriate." Berkeley. 117. "He hada heart to resolve; a head to contrive ; and a hand to execute." Gibbon. " He had a head to contrive ; a tongue to persuade ; and a hand to execute " Clarendon. 118. " None but himself can be his parallel." Theobald. ** Alcidae parem ? Nemo est nisi... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pagine
...your threefold, fourfold tomb.2 On Shakapearc. EDWARD HYDE CLARENDON. 1G08-1G74. He [Sir John Hambden] had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief.8 E'utory of the RelitlHon. Vol. iii. Book vii. § 84. 1 Sec Appendix, p. 630. 2 Compare... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1883 - 660 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 Baxter revered as able, by his presence and conversation, to give a new charm to the rest... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1888 - 346 pagine
...[Dec. o, 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. Hatnpden, to whose brave... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1888 - 658 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 Baxter revered as able, by his presence and conversation, to give a new charm to the rest... | |
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Hampden, that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischief. 
