 | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné - 1811
...parliament, he had placed himself in a state of disgraceful dependence on Lewis 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 farther even than policy required, the practice of dissimulation,... | |
 | 1857
...what was said at all amiss, viz. : — ' We have a pretty witty king. And whose word no man relys on ; He never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.' " The version I have been used to being,— " God save our mutton-eating king," &c. Soon follows another... | |
 | 1821
...ably with the sword as with the pen, the struggle would soon have been decided in his favour. What has been said of the son, that he never said a foolish...have been a virtue. In speaking, he expressed his own judgement; in acting, he yielded to that of others, and was ruined by want of confidence in himself,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1821
...ably with the sword as with the pen, the struggle would soon have been decided in his favour. What has been said of the son, that he ] never said a foolish...other times and other circumstances, would have been a _) virtue. In speaking, he expressed his own judgement ; in acting, he yielded to that of others, and... | |
 | 1882
...things, and yet not be a prudent man in his own conduct; like King Charles n., of whom it is said, that ' He never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one.' True wisdom, boys, really consists in knowing what is best for us to do, and then doing it. A great... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1827
...many foolish things as .this man has said ? That part of Rochester's epitaph on CHARLES the Second: that " he never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one," would not suit this witty gentleman ; for, though he never yet did a wise thing in his public capacity,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1832 - 920 halaman
...and it appears in nothing more than in sudden retorts and repartees. It may almost be affirmed of him that, ' He never said a foolish thing And never did a wise one." The very beggars have a natural eloquence and tact, that is irresistible ; and when solicitation fails,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1840
...it appears in nothing more than in sudden retorts and repartees. It may almost be affirmed of him, that " He never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." The very beggars have a natural eloquence and tact that is irresistible ; and when solicitation fails,... | |
 | Jabez Delano Hammond - 1842
...Charles II. at one of the many convivial parties of which he was a member, was told by a boon companion, that "He never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one." The jovial monarch wittily replied that the remark was just, and the reason was, his words were his... | |
 | Jabez Delano Hammond - 1842
...Charles II. at one of the many convivial parties of which he was a member, was told by a boon companion, that "He never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one." The jovial monarch wittily replied that the remark was just, and the reason was, his words were •... | |
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What has been said of the son,* that he never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one... 
