...talents fitted him to shine in courts or camps^ or popular assemblies. He had a heart to conceive, a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute schemes of the most extensive utility to his country, or rather to mankind, for his enlarged philanthropy,...

...talents fitted him to shine in courts or camps, or popular assemblies. He had a heart to conceive, a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute schemes of the most extensive utility to his country, or rather to mankind, for his enlarged philanthropy,...

...reader," says Mr. Knight, " I believe, from the publication of the poem to the present day, \\asfelt the lines here censured to be extremely affecting,...in wielding a dagger, or pulling a trigger, but his vigour and capacity for conducting and executing, as well as designing and promoting, those public...

...Buckinghamshire, June is, 1643. Lord Clarendon's character of him is that which Sallust gave of Catiline : " He had a head to contrive, a. tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief." HANAN, a considerable town of Hesse-Cassel. In 1792, Hanan was attacked, but not occupied by the French...

...cannot, therefore, see what application the passage quoted by Mr. Knight has to the one in question, " He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief." Here there is no address to the hand, nor is it considered as something distinct from the person to...

...London, December the 12th, OS 1749. LORD Clarendon, in his history, says of Mr. John Hampden, that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischief. I shall not now enter into the justness of this character of Mr. Hampden, to whose brave stand against...

...character of Hambden, that while the author applies to him in conclusion what was said of Cinna, ' that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any VoL. xxvn. — No. 61. 39 mischief,' every line shows that the historian believed him to be a man of...

...character of Hambden, that while the author applies to him in conclusion what was said of Cinna, ' that he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any VOL. XXVII. — No. 61. 39 / mischief,' every line shows that the historian believed him to be a man...

...which the noble historian has expressed of this justly celebrated man is sufficiently comprehensive. " He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischief." William Pym was a man hardly less remarkable than Hampden, by whom he was much influenced in his conduct....

...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...