...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...

...zealously to correct the defect. Under the auspices, then, of the king of whom Kochester 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,2...

...childless only child, the wife of the licentious Villiers Duke of Buckingham, of whom it is written that he " Never said a, foolish thing And never did a wise one," the scenes and the memories of his childhood's days in the forest. From his will made in 1667 AD with...

...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 * That is, the difference between the time of noon, or of the coming to the south...

...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,2...

...rise against their hated oppressors. 1. 3d August 1649. 2. It was afterwards said of Charles tiiat he never said a foolish thing, and never did a. wise one. 3. loth August 1649. 4. This phrase often meant "death with the sword to all found with arms in their...

...door of the king's bed-chamber : " Here rests our severely lord the king, Whose word no one relies on, He never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." Charles expressed no anger on reading it, but remarked it was perfectly true, for while his language...