 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1857 - 492 דפים
...recognition. A friend may have spoken of him with literal truth when he declared that ho possessed " a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade. and a hand to execute " in masterly style what he attempted : but the beauty and desirableness of these endowments are much... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1859 - 340 דפים
...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 - 1861 - 300 דפים
...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.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1862 - 620 דפים
...Clarendon, speaking of our own great, patriot statesman Hampden, he alone had " a heart to conceive, a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute it ;" and who then died just as he had set his se.al on the undertaking which, from being the dream... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - 1864 - 370 דפים
...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 being roasted, so often the... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - 1864 - 368 דפים
...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 being roasted, so often the... | |
 | Belgravia - 1871 - 558 דפים
...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 Pym have been, what a right... | |
 | 1867 - 234 דפים
...letters are beautiful specimens of the art epistolary, — a few extracts from which are subjoined. "With a. head to contrive, a tongue to persuade and a hand to execute, Mr. Fiske would have honorably filled a much higher position in political life, than he ever attained.... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1870 - 292 דפים
...[Dee. 9th, 1749.] HAMPDEN A LESSON. — 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, to whose brave stand against... | |
 | Charles Patrick Fox - 1871 - 292 דפים
...be anything. Hampden a, Lesson. — " 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, to whose brave stand against... | |
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THAT HE HAD A HEAD TO CONTRIVE, A TONGUE TO PERSUADE, AND A HAND TO EXECUTE ANY MISCHIEF. 
