 | John Lemprière - 1810 - 698 σελίδες
...as a great rather than a good man, and the noble historian applies to him what was applied to Cinna, that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief. ¡I л м:;л, a Mahometan doctor, known for his extravagant attempt to eradicate the tenets of Mahnmct,... | |
 | Daniel Neal, Edward Parsons - 1811 - 802 σελίδες
...because he 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. A most unaccountable character of one whom his lordship had commended as a person not only of chearfulness... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 544 σελίδες
...than it was condoled in the other. 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, or," as the historian says elsewhere, " any good." Thus is Hampden described by Clarendon, agreeably... | |
 | John Britton - 1812 - 1070 σελίδες
...character, had it been left to be drawn by a Clarendon, would have been summed up in a few few words, " he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a heart to execute any mischief." • OWEN GLYNDWR*. On the north side of the Dee, about three miles... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1812 - 1052 σελίδες
...character, had it been left to be drawn by a Clarendon, would have been summed up in a few few words, " he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a heart to execute any mischief." OWEN GLYNDWR*. On the north side of the Dee, about three miles from... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 540 σελίδες
...than it was condoled in the other. 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, or," as the historian says elsewhere, " any good." Thus is Hampden described by Clarendon, agreeably... | |
 | 1814 - 540 σελίδες
...than it was condoled in the other. 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, or," as the historian says elsewhere, " any good." Thus is Hampden described by Clarendon, agreeably... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 524 σελίδες
...than it was condoled in the other. 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,' or (as the noble historian elsewhere observes) any good.' This character, as Mrs. Macaulay observes^... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 σελίδες
...it was condoled in the other. laaword, what was said of Cinna might well be applied to him; he had & head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief; or, as the historian says elsewhere, any good.' 1 ' " Clarendon," remarks Mrs. Macaulay. " has pretended... | |
 | Daniel Neal - 1817 - 576 σελίδες
...because he 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"... | |
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Hampden, that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischief. 
