 | Daniel Neal - 1817 - 576 페이지
...fought against the court, lord Clarendon says (if this be not an interpolation of the editors) that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief. § Which is very unaccountli or indifference, or infidelity ; and in declaring (hem to be the prin"... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1817 - 522 페이지
...talents fitted him to shine in courts, or camps, or popular assemblies. He had a heart to conceive, a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute schemes of the most extensive utility to bis country, or rather to mankind; for his enlarged philanthropy,... | |
 | John Macdiarmid - 1820 - 468 페이지
...as any man could deserve to be. In a word, what was said of Cinna might well be applied to him : " He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief." He was killed in a skirmish in 1643. Vol. I. 185 ; II. 265. JOHN PYM. No man had more to answer for... | |
 | Paul Allen - 1822 - 536 페이지
...talents fitted him to shine in courts or camps, or popular assemblies. He had a heart to conceive, a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute schemes of the most extensive utility to his country, or rather to mankind, for his enlarged philanthropy,... | |
 | Paul Allen - 1822 - 540 페이지
...talents fitted him to shine in courts or camps^ or popular assemblies. He had a heart to conceive, a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute schemes of the most extensive utility to his country, or rather to mankind, for his enlarged philanthropy,... | |
 | James Mitchell - 1823 - 654 페이지
...Buckinghamshire, June is, 1643. Lord Clarendon's character of him is that which Sallust gave of Catiline : " He had a head to contrive, a. tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief." HANAN, a considerable town of Hesse-Cassel. In 1792, Hanan was attacked, but not occupied by the French... | |
 | Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1827 - 390 페이지
...London, December the 12th, OS 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 stand against... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1828 - 598 페이지
...character of Hambden, that while the author applies to him in conclusion what was said of Cinna, ' that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any VoL. xxvn. — No. 61. 39 mischief,' every line shows that the historian believed him to be a man of... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1828 - 598 페이지
...character of Hambden, that while the author applies to him in conclusion what was said of Cinna, ' that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any VOL. XXVII. — No. 61. 39 / mischief,' every line shows that the historian believed him to be a man... | |
 | John Parker Lawson - 1829 - 590 페이지
...which the noble historian has expressed of this justly celebrated man is sufficiently comprehensive. " He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischief." William Pym was a man hardly less remarkable than Hampden, by whom he was much influenced in his conduct.... | |
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THAT HE HAD A HEAD TO CONTRIVE, A TONGUE TO PERSUADE, AND A HAND TO EXECUTE ANY MISCHIEF. 
