 | Daniel Neal - 1817 - 574 σελίδες
...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 umiccount" or indifference, or infidelity ; and in declaring... | |
 | John Macdiarmid - 1820 - 468 σελίδες
...been made a friend, and as much to be apprehended where he was so, as any man could deserve to be. In a word, what was said of Cinna might well be applied...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.... | |
 | James Mitchell - 1823 - 654 σελίδες
...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,... | |
 | Martin M'Dermot, Martin MacDermot - 1823 - 438 σελίδες
...cannot, therefore, see what application the passage quoted by Mr. Knight has to the one in question, " He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief." Here there is no address to the hand, nor is it considered as something... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 σελίδες
...; and therefore his death was no less pleasing to the one party, 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, and a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief." His death therefore seemed to be a great... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 406 σελίδες
...be. And therefore his death was no less pleasing to the one party, 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, and a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief." His death therefore seemed to be a great... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 410 σελίδες
...be. And therefore his death was no less pleasing to the one party! 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, and a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief." His death therefore seemed to be a great... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 σελίδες
...be. And therefore his death was no less pleasing to the one party, 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, and a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief." His death therefore seemed to be a great... | |
 | Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1827 - 390 σελίδες
...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,... | |
 | Johann Friedrich C. Kortüm - 1827 - 480 σελίδες
...Rebellion I. 61 (fol.) imb 324 too ее untet nnbetm fccifït: „in a word, whal was said of Cinna (sic.) might well be applied to him: he had a head to contrive, and a tongue to perswade and a hand to execute any mischief" unb : „he was very temperate in diet,... | |
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And therefore his death was no less congratulated on the one party, 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, and a tongue to persuade, " and a hand to execute, any... 
