...is James the Sixth of Scotland and the First of England — the king, according to the old waggery, "who never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one." But see Green. The "wanton laird of young Logic" is John Wemyss who plotted against him with the Earl...

...very means of preserving that liberal park scenery whereof Englishmen are so justly proud. The King who never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one, is reported to have described trees as natural excrescences of the earth supplied by Providence for...

...our polished rulers, James the First, ' the wisest fool in Christendom,' and Charles the Second, ' who never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one,' confirm that people who have filled themselves with undigested learning can talk most wisely in drawing...

...powerlessness, or even perversity of conduct, is equally proved by the well-known biographies of many men, ' who never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one.' The essential difference of men who are content to rest in thought, and those who transmute it into...

...side. They can be expressed by phrases such as: Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear IMiltonI Who never said a foolish thing And never did a wise one ( Rochester about Charles II ) Personification happens when something that is not human, or not even...

...Charles II, King of England, wrote of himself, in answer to a courtier's epigram, as the sovereign "Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." 3. In 321 AD Constantinc the Great issued an edict proclaiming Sunday a legal day of rest. This edict...

...among the, most colossal corporations ever created by a government. Its founder was that merry monarch "who never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one." Every student of American history has occasion to observe how lavish Charles II. used to be with his...

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...before the Reformation, though no doubt stimulated by causes which led to that movement. Our king, who " never said a " foolish thing and never did a wise one," may be an early example of the evil results of premature cramming. The Acts of the Assembly show a...

...suggestion of converse to break an impending awkwardness. " He is somewhat of the order of that potentate who ' never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one.' He does not always carry out his good ideas in his writing. Still, he has time before him," responded...