 | 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,... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 σελίδες
...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 mischief." His death, therefore, seemed to be a... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1859 - 340 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,... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 σελίδες
...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 mischief." His death, therefore, seemed to be a... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1861 - 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,... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 σελίδες
...be. And therefore his death was no less pleasingto 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... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - 1864 - 370 σελίδες
...even his enemies lauded his virtue and integrity, and still more the invectives of Clarendon, — " he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief" — though allude to some contrivance for turning a spit while meat was... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - 1864 - 368 σελίδες
...even his enemies lauded his virtue and integrity, and still more the invectives of Clarendon, — " he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief" — though allude to some contrivance for turning a spit while meat was... | |
 | Belgravia - 1871 - 558 σελίδες
...all eulogies when coming from a defeated enemy. It is stolen from Sallust's character of Cataline : ' He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief.' With Cromwell's great brain to direct them, what a prime minister would... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 σελίδες
...therefore his death was no less congratulated2 in 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 hud a head to contrive, and a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief." His death, therefore,... | |
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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... 
