 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1707 - 488 pages
...deferve to be. And therefore his death was no lels pleafing to the One Party, than it was condoled in the Other. In a word, what was faid of Cinna, might...Him; "he had a Head to " contrive, and a Tongue to perfwade, and a Hand to exe" cute, any mi (chief. Mis death therefore fcem'd to be a great deliverance... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1707 - 496 pages
...be. And therefore his death was no lefs pleafing to the One Party, than it was condoled in the Ocher. In a word, what was faid of Cinna, might well be applied...Him ; " he had a Head to " contrive, and a Tongue to perfwade, and a Hand to exe" cute, any mifchief. His death therefore fcem'd to be a great deliverance... | |
 | Clarendon, Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1717 - 500 pages
...lefs pleafing to the One Party, than it was condoled in the Other. In a word, what was faid ofcimta, might well be applied to Him; "He had a Head to " contrive, and a Tongue to perfwade, and a Hand to exe" cute, any mifchicf. His death therefore fecm'd to be a great deliverance... | |
 | Edward Hyde (1st earl of Clarendon.) - 1731 - 508 pages
...defcrve to be. And therefore his death was no Icfs pleafing to the One Party, than it was condoled in the Other. In a word, what was faid of Cinna, might...him; " He had a Head to " contrive, and a Tongue to periwadc, and a Hand to exe" cute, any miichief. His death therefore icem'd to be a great deliverance... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1731 - 502 pages
...was no lefs pleating to the One Party, than it was condoled in the Other. In a word, what was laid of Cinna, might well be applied to him ; " He had a Head to "contrive, and a Tongue to perfwade, and a Hand to ex«" cute, any mifchief. His death therefore feem'd to be a great deliverance... | |
 | Edmund Waller - English poetry - 1744 - 496 pages
...refign'd himfelf implicitly to the conduft of that artful Demagogue, who (as J Cicero fay* rf Catiline) " had a head to contrive, and a tongue " to perfuade, and a hand to execute, any mif" chief:" which, by a very pardonable flip of his memory, the Noble Hiftorian miftook for the charafter... | |
 | William Ayre, Edmund Curll - Poets, English - 1745 - 392 pages
...there is fomething fo vqry " falfe and bafe, that fuch Coin could only come " from a College Mint. (In a Word, what was " faid of Cinna, might well be applied to Hamp" den ; he had a Head to contrive, and a Tongue to " perfuade, and a Hand to execute any Mi f chief.... | |
 | William Harris - 1766 - 434 pages
...not his editors, as has been groundlefly promulgated), 'What has ' been faid of Cinna, might be well applied to him ; he * had a head to contrive, and a tongue to perfwade, and (i)HlA.of * a hand to execute any mifchief (^)-' Few readers li<np ^66. w1^ fubmic to... | |
 | Joseph Galloway - Great Britain - 1781 - 126 pages
...itfelf ; his difli" pation and profligacy even furpafied the means "he pofiefied of gratifying them. — He had a " head to contrive, and a tongue to perfuade, and " took pleafure in civil broils ; of a fpirit daring " and infidious — expert in all the arts of... | |
 | Francis Atterbury - English letters - 1783 - 416 pages
...veracity." <lege ' lege mint. (In a word, what was faid of * CINN A might well be applied to HAMPDEN ; ' he had a head to contrive, and a tongue to * perfuade, and a hand to execute any mlfchief. * His death, therefore, feemedto be a great de* liverance to the nation.') 1 There are not... | |
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... parts ; so that he was an enemy not to be wished wherever he might have been made a friend ; and as much to be apprehended where he was so, as any man could deserve to be. And therefore his death was no less congratulated on the one party, than it... 
