...Macaulay elsewhere compares Hampden to Washington. P. 76. "Most frivolous. .. .of tyrants." — Chas. II. "Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." P. 77. "Charles and James, Belial and Moloch." — (i) Thus Belial Counselled ignoble ease. (2) Moloch,...

...in Maryland's present boundary and the whole of the 4Oth degree of latitude. This same monarch, '' who never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one," settled his indebtedness to William Penn, by issuing another grant to him, which included, a large...

...Mayo, Galway, Sligo, Roscommon, and Tipperary. The gayeties and frivolities of the court of that king, "Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one," in which the monarch himself so freely indulged, setting the fashion of horse racing by presenting...

...bedchamber door, pronounced a verdict on Charles II. that might well fit many another prominent man, ' who never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one,' but perhaps none so well as Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Biographers have vied with one another in attempting...

...kingdom. To Charles, therefore, a new petition was pre- Charles n. sented in 1662, and to that king, " who never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one," save this present action, belongs the honor of granting the broadest charter of human liberties ever...

...promise can oblige a King so much Still to be good, as long to have been such. This of the King, " who never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one " ! Inability to foresee the trend of events might excuse the fulsomeness of these inductory odes,...

...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...

...Fool in Church and State," by which phrase is meant James I., who was otherwise described as the man " who never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one." The book is a vivacious treatment of an important period. " Old Heidelberg." By Wilhelm MeyerForster....

...irresistibly reminded of the question once put to sage and wise courtiers by the facetious monarch ' who never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one,' viz. Why is a tub of water with a goose in it lighter than one without ? " ' God help thee, Southey,...

...the same discordant traits was needed to make up the character of his grandson, Charles the Second, who "never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one." Of course I would not think of making this parallel go on all fours; and undoubtedly, as King 1 Green,...