 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
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - Biography - 1857 - 492 pages
...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 - Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin - 1859 - 340 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1859 - 414 pages
...•îupert ou Chalgrove Field, Oxfordshire, 1613; в. in London, 1594. — Lord Clarendon observes of him, that •* he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and л heart to execute any mischief." But others are of -•'. different opinion from his lordship, in... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1861 - 300 pages
...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 - American periodicals - 1862 - 620 pages
...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 - Hartwell (Buckinghamshire, England) - 1864 - 370 pages
...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 - Hartwell (Buckinghamshire, England) - 1864 - 368 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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.... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...Vol. vi. 1 70 Clarendon. — L ovelace. EDWARD HYDE CLARENDON. 1608 — 1674. He [Sir John Hambden] had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief.1 History of the Rebellion, Vol. iii. Book vii. § 84. RICHARD LOVELACE. 1618-1658. Oh ! could... | |
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