 | Edward Parry - 1847 - 378 σελίδες
...a man whose character, had it been drawn by a Clarendon, would have been summed up in a few words, "He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a heart to execute any undertaking." Glyndwr was quietly studying law, when it was notified to him that... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1850 - 300 σελίδες
...state), was a man of singular strength, both of body and mind, but of a disposition extremely vicious. He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute the hardiest attempt. From his youth up, he took pleasure in civil broils, civil wars, rapine, and... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1851 - 298 σελίδες
...state), was a man of singular strength, both of body and mind, but of a disposition extremely vicious. He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute the hardiest attempt From his youth up, he took pleasure in civil broils, civil wars, rapine, and massacres.... | |
 | William Cathrall - 1851 - 354 σελίδες
...them on the occasion are preserved." Of this last brave asserter of his country's rights it is said " that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a heart to execute any mischief! But besides these bold and dexterous qualities, which perhaps belonged,... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 634 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." * At home his career, though never, as I think, inspired by a high and pervading... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 σελίδες
...concern for yourself, that I have for you. Adieu. LETTER CCVII. DEAR BOY, London, December 12. OS 1749. head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischxef. Lord Clarendon, in his history, says of Mr John Hampden, that fie had a I shali not now enter... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1853 - 510 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... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1854 - 550 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... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1856 - 500 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... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1857 - 642 σελίδες
...yourself, that I have for you. Adieu. LETTER CCVII. Luyóme, Dtetmbtr 19, 0. S. 1749. DEÍR Вот : Lord Clarendon, in his history, says of Mr. John Hampden, that he had a head to contrice, a langue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief. I shall not now enter into the... | |
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Hampden, that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischief. 
