 | Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall - 1920 - 648 halaman
...twenty-five years. He died as he had lived, careless, witty, laughterloving. He was clever, and it is said that he never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one. He was lazy, selfish, and deceitful, a bad man, and a bad king. Yet Charles found both men and women... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1921 - 286 halaman
...anything. Like Charles II of England. S Maryland State Bar Association. [1921 of whom it was said, "He never said a foolish thing: and never did a wise one." The reason for greater apprehension from corruption of a political character in the capitalistic class,... | |
 | Bertram Waldrom Matz - 1923 - 310 halaman
...all-understanding and the all-compassionate. DICKENS AND WOMEN By EDWIN PUGH TT is written of an English monarch that he never said a foolish thing, -*- and never did a wise one. He was not a great man. Great men often say foolish things, perhaps because they are not afraid to... | |
 | 1921 - 286 halaman
...The epitaph runs, as you know : Here lies our sovereign lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; He never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one. The King read the lines and said " Quite true. My sayings are my own but my acts are my ministers'."... | |
 | Walpurga Ehrengarde Helena de Hohenthal Paget - 1923 - 340 halaman
...evening, and, when it was possible, in the day-time. To him King Charles's epitaph might also apply : " He never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one." A. joined us in London about the end of August, and about the beginning of September we went to Heron... | |
 | Edwin Beresford Chancellor - 1924 - 324 halaman
...monarch's bedroom door : — " Here lies our sovereign lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; He never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." — a quatrain that more accurately sums up Charles's character than do pages of Clarendon's or Burnet's... | |
 | Charlie Dunbar Broad - 1926 - 88 halaman
...theories which form the basis of modern science? Most certainly not. As regards experiment and observation he "never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one." He seems to have been an incompetent but pertinacious experimenter; and in his Natural Histories he... | |
 | Peter Hampson Ditchfield - 1926 - 376 halaman
...in his treatment of the Gilds certainly conformed to the judgment which the rhymer passed on him : " He never said a foolish thing And never did a wise one." but James II, alarmed at the approach of William and Mary, hastily restored them, and when the latter... | |
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What has been said of the son,* that he never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one... 
