| 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
...affecting, and strongly expressive v-*~v^' of the perturbed and impassioned state of mind Of Imagina. of the person in whose name they are written. But...mischief," says a noble historian, of the leader of a hostile party ; by which, it is to be presumed that he did not mean to signify his manual dexterity... | |
| Richard Payne Knight - Art - 1806 - 502 pages
...reader, I believe, from CHAP. the time of the publication of the poem to the "• . present day, has felt the lines, here censured, ™ to be extremely affecting,...in wielding a dagger, or pulling a trigger, but his vigor and capacity for conducting and executing, as well as designing and promoting those public measures,... | |
| 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
...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
...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... | |
| Richard Payne Knight - Aesthetics - 1808 - 510 pages
...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,"...in wielding a dagger, or pulling a trigger, but his vigor and capacity for conducting and executing, as well as designing and promoting those public measures,... | |
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