...take what was said at all amiss, viz. We have a pritty witty king And whose word no man relys on : He never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one. Nov. 20. On Sunday last, (17th inst.) about three o'clock in the afternoon, died my very dear friend,...

...Edward Goke, who sent him to Oxford. Strange as it may seem, to that king of whom it was written " he never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one," who granted to Williams and his associates " the broadest charter of human liberties ever issued under...

...his : — 242. On KIXG CHARLES : — Here lies our mutton-eating King, Whose word no man relies on ; He never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one. 243. On NICHOLAS FERRY, a French Dwarf. He died at the age of twenty-three, and measured thirty-three...

...his: — 242." On KING CHARLES : — Here lies our mutton-eating King, Whose word no man relies on ; He never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one. 243. On NICHOLAS FERRY, a French Dwarf. He died at the age of twenty-three, and measured thirty-three...

...that the powers of the existing Commission were to be transferred. It had been written of Charles II. that he never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one, and the saying if reversed might, perhaps, very well be applied to the Endowed Schools Commissioners,...

...he had placed himself in a state of disgraceful independence ou Louis XIV. It has been said of him that he never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one. Judging by the following anecdote, he carried further even than policy required, the practice of dissimulation,...

...and good-natured* Once one of his courtiers, in a joke, wrote some lines on him, in which it was said that " he never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one." " That may be true," remarked Charles, " for my words are my own, my deeds my ministers." When the...

...He was, like Rob Roy, "ower good for banning and ower bad for blessing." Like our own Charles II., he never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one. He ought to have been an aesthetic essayist, or a lecturer on art and moral philosophy to young ladies;...

...He was, like Rob Roy, " ower good for banning and ower bad for blessing." Like our own Charles II., he never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one. He ought to have been an aesthetic essayist, or a lecturer on art and moral philosophy to young ladies;...

...zealously to correct the defect. Under the auspices then of the king, of whom Rochester wrongly said that ' he never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one,' Greenwich Observatory was built, and in 1676 Flamsteed, who had been appointed Astronomical Observator,1...