 | 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... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1892 - 514 pagine
...LONDON, December 12, OS 1749. DEAU 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... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1892 - 320 pagine
...[Dec. 9, i 749-] 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... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - 1895 - 460 pagine
...Clarendon, the royal apologist, 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 Lord Macaulay more justly discerns in Hampdeu "that sobriety, that self-command,... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1895 - 652 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... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pagine
...insignificancy and an Earldom. t. EARL OF CHESTERFIELD — Character of Pulteney. 1763. He (Hampden) an. Ep. IL 99. Thou Great First Cause, least understood. o. POPE— any mischief. 1. En. HYDE CLARENDON — History of the Rebellion. Vol. III. Bk. VII. IB numbers warmly... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1897 - 168 pagine
...December the I2th, 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. 5 I shall not now enter into the justness of this character of Mr. Hampden, to whose... | |
 | Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1852 - 1216 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 Ibe beauty and desirableness of these endowments are much... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1898 - 654 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... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1898 - 654 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. 
