 | Lucius Sergius CATILINA - 1795 - 342 pages
...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... | |
 | 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
...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... | |
 | n. hooke - 1806 - 518 pages
...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 - 478 pages
...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... | |
 | 1809 - 304 pages
...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... | |
 | Daniel Neal, Edward Parsons - Dissenters, Religious - 1811 - 802 pages
...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 as a person not... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 544 pages
...was condoled in the other. 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 hand to execute, any mischief, or," as the historian says elsewhere, " any good." Thus is Hampden described by Clarendon,... | |
 | Biography - 1814 - 540 pages
...was condoled in the other. 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 hand to execute, any mischief, or," as the historian says elsewhere, " any good." Thus is Hampden described by Clarendon,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 536 pages
...it was condoled in the other. In a word, what was said of Chma might well be applied to him : he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischief, or," as the historian says elsewherei " any good." Thus is Hampden described by Clarendon,... | |
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Hampden, that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischief. 
