 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 456 pages
...win the hearts, when he could no longer gain the esteem of mankind. 6 Rochester's epigrammatic jest, that " he never said a foolish thing, nor ever did a wise one," forms a tolerable motto for his " picture in little." Dryden, however, did not scruple to laud him... | |
 | 734 pages
...the hearts, when he could no longer gain the esteem of mankind. f Rochester's epigrammatic jest, ' that he never said a foolish thing, nor ever did a wise one,' forms a tolerable motto for his picture in little." The following short letter addressed to ae;i:eat... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1807 - 578 pages
...a monarch, it is impossible for us to regard with great severity. IT has been remarked of Charles, that he never said a foolish thing nor ever did a wise one: A censure which, though too far carried, seems to have some foundation in his character and deportment.... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 550 pages
...is impossible for us to regard with ^rv_"- great severity. 1685 - IT has been remarked of Charles, that he never said a foolish thing nor ever did a wise one : A censure which, though too far carried, seems to have some foundation in ' his character and deportment.... | |
 | David Hume - 1812 - 576 pages
...a monarch, it is impossible for us to regard with great severity. IT has been remarked of Charles, that he never said a foolish thing nor ever did a wise one : A censure which, though too far carried, seems to have some foundation in his character and deportment.... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...monarch, it is impossible for us to regard with great severity. It has been remarked of this king, that he never said a foolish thing, nor ever did a wise one : a censure, which, though too far carried, seems to have some foundation in his character and deportment.... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - Great Britain - 1828 - 420 pages
...impossible for us to regard with great severity. 15 Duke of Buckingham. It has been remarked of Charles, that he never said a foolish thing nor ever did a wise one : a censure which, though too far carried, seems to have some foundation in his character and deportment.... | |
 | George Russell French - 1841 - 446 pages
...throne as Charles II., whose character is comprised in the lines of one of his profligate favourites," " He never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one." The great Plague in 1665, and the great Fire in 1666, distinguish this from preceding reigns in national... | |
 | Robert Peirce Cruden - Associations, institutions, etc - 1843 - 622 pages
...unfavourable reminiscences. Charles procured for himself no higher fame, than to have it recorded of him, that he never said a foolish thing, nor ever did a wise one ; and James, after wielding in succession, the trident, and the sceptre of these realms, was driven... | |
 | Thomas Stephen - Scotland - 1844 - 696 pages
...lenity in pardoning the offences committed against himself2." IT WAS frequently remarked of Charles, " that he never said a foolish thing, nor ever did a wise one," a severe and unjust censure ; but when it was related to the merry monarch, ho readily accounted for... | |
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Charles, that he never said a foolish thing nor ever did a wise one: A censure which, though too far carried, seems to have some foundation in his character and deportment. 
