 | Nathaniel Hooke - Rome - 1830 - 606 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... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 620 pages
...Clarendon sums up an elaborate character of this eminent leader, by declaring that, like Catiline, " He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischief." But his character and conduct, from first to last, evince his conscientiousness, and he has taken his... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 626 pages
...Clarendon sums up an elaborate character of this eminent leader, by declaring that, like Catiline, "He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischief." But his character and eonduct, from first to lust, evince his conscientiousness, and lie has taken... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 628 pages
...Clarendon sums up an elaborate character of this eminent leader, by declaring that, like Catiline, " He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any miscliief." But his character and conduct, from first to last, evince his conscientiousness, and he... | |
 | George Nugent Grenville Baron Nugent - 1832 - 378 pages
...compounded her medicines, and latterly seldom left her. She had, as Lord Clarendon somewhere says, ' a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any sort of cookery.' One day The Lioness complained sadly to Mr. A., that Miss Mary would no longer take... | |
 | John Macgregor - Canada - 1833 - 648 pages
...truth in respect to that patriot in the last word of the sentence, may be justly said of Le Rat: — " He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any evil." Instead of returning to Makilimakinak, he proceeded with his warriors to the cascades, which... | |
 | John Gorton - 1833 - 820 pages
...an elaborate character of this eminent leader, by a sentence implying that, like Catiline, " he bad a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief." This language, divested of party spirit, merely implies that, acting upon his own theory, he was a... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1834 - 530 pages
...have seen drawn and quartered, whom Clarendon paints as possessing beyond all his contemporaries, " a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute," and whom the fervent Baxter revered as able, by his presence and conversation, to give a new charm... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1834 - 532 pages
...have seen drawn and quartered, whom Clarendon paints as possessing beyond all his contemporaries, " a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute," and whom the fervent Baxter revered as able, by his presence and conversation, to give a new charm... | |
 | John Gorton - Biography - 1835 - 822 pages
...sums up an elaborate character of this eminent leader, by a sentence implying that, like Catiline, " he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief." Thil language, divested of party spirit, merely implies that, acting upon his own theory, he was a... | |
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THAT HE HAD A HEAD TO CONTRIVE, A TONGUE TO PERSUADE, AND A HAND TO EXECUTE ANY MISCHIEF. 
