 Clarendon paints as possessing beyond all his contemporaries " a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute...  Letters on education - Page 381by Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1847Full view - About this book
 | Lucius Sergius CATILINA - 1795 - 342 pages
...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 station. He... | |
 | Eccentric biography - 1801 - 352 pages
...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... | |
 | 1826 - 616 pages
...considered or represented his wisdom, eloquence, and valour, as exerted to produce ' mischief. ' f A head to contrive, a tongue ' to persuade, and a hand to execute, ' are the highest qualities of human nature. That they were united by Hampden, we may firmly believe,... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - Art - 1805 - 512 pages
...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, it is to be presumed that he did... | |
 | n. hooke - 1806 - 518 pages
...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 wars, rapine, and... | |
 | Sallust - Jugurthine War, 111 B.C.-105 B.C. - 1807 - 474 pages
...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 station. He... | |
 | John Watkins - Biography - 1807 - 1014 pages
...kln^but was shot by a pistol in a skirmish in Oxfordshire in 1G4.J. Lord Clarendon observes of him, that " he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a heart to execute, any mischief." — ClarfaJan'j Hut. oftbt RcleUio«. 1 1л.. i SA, a mohammedan doctor,... | |
 | Artists - 1811 - 448 pages
...he was actuated by ambition, or by zeal for his country's welfare. Lord Clarendon observes of him, that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a heart to execute any mischief. The events which followed the death of Hampden induce us to believe... | |
 | 1809 - 304 pages
...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 of Thomas Hailes, Esq. John... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope - Philosophy, English - 1810 - 456 pages
...yourself, that I have for you. Adien. LETIER CCVII. . , London, Decemher 12, OS 1749. DEAR BOY, T ORD Clarendon, in his history, says of Mr. John * ^ Hampden, ' that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persnade, and a hand to execute, any mis.. chief.' I shall not now enter into the jnstuess of . this... | |
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