 | George Bancroft - 1834 - 530 σελίδες
...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 the fervent Baxter revered as able, by his presence and conversation, to give a new charm... | |
 | John Gorton - 1835 - 822 σελίδες
...sums up an elaborate character of this eminent leader, by a sentence implying that, like Catiline, " he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief." Thil language, divested of party spirit, merely implies that, acting upon his own theory, he was a... | |
 | Daniel Neal - 1837 - 742 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 unaccountable in one whom his lordship had commended as a person not only of cheerfulness... | |
 | Daniel Neal - 1837 - 716 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 unaccountable in one whom his lordship had commended as a person not only of cheerfulness... | |
 | Thomas Roscoe - 1837 - 332 σελίδες
...of the manoeuvres of his enemies. Of this last brave asserter of his country's rights it was said, " that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a heart to execute any mischief." But besides * Owen Glyndwr was bred to the bar in Gray's Inn, and in... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1838 - 324 σελίδες
...the extent of Clarendon's supposed calumny of Hampden, applying to him the character of China — " He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief." almost unmingled zeal for the public good and loyal attachment to the crown. I doubt this on the part... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1838 - 672 σελίδες
...Commons reversed in his favour Clarendon's 1747. character of Hampden ; saying that " Lord Ches" terfield 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 patriotism,... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1838 - 680 σελίδες
...Commons reversed in his favour Clarendon's 1747. character of Hampden ; saying that " Lord Ches" terfield 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 patriotism,... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1839 - 506 σελίδες
...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 the fervent Baxter revered as able, by his presence and conversation, to give a new charm... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1841 - 464 σελίδες
...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 (1 ) ." At home his career, though never, as I think, inspired by a high and pervading... | |
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Hampden, that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischief. 
