| Lucius Sergius CATILINA - 1795 - 342 páginas
...invite, solicit, and inveigle, all whom he thought fit for his purposes; and what he could he dared ; he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute. He had the exact measure of every man's abilities, and could assign to each his proper... | |
| Eccentric biography - 1801 - 352 páginas
...in these remarkable terms : — " 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 heart to execute any mischief." The grandson of the great Hampden, and knight of the shire for the county of Bucks, was fined 40,0001.... | |
| Richard Payne Knight - 1805 - 512 páginas
...metaphorically to signify energy or power, as the heart is to signify affection, or the head intellect. '* He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief," says a noble historian, of the leader of a hostile party ; by which,... | |
| n. hooke - 1806 - 518 páginas
...State) was a man of singular strength bpth 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... | |
| 1811 - 448 páginas
...leaving it a matter of doubt whether he was actuated by ambition, or by zeal for his country's welfare. Lord Clarendon observes of him, that he had a head...to persuade, and a heart to execute any mischief. The events which followed the death of Hampden induce us to believe that he died in the zenith of his... | |
| Sallust - 1807 - 474 páginas
...vite, solicit, and inveigle, all whom he thought fit for his purposes; and what he could he dared ; he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute. He had the exact measure of every man's abilities, and could assign to each his proper... | |
| 1809 - 304 páginas
...and died the 24th of June, 1643. Lord Clarendon has " compared him to Cinna, of whom it was said, " he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischief." 39. JOHN PYM, ESQ. Engraved ly Houbraken,from a Picture in the Possession... | |
| Daniel Neal, Edward Parsons - 1811 - 802 páginas
...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... | |
| John Britton - 1812 - 1070 páginas
...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 Llangollen, upon the rising... | |
| 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 páginas
...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 Llangollen, upon the rising slope... | |
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