| Sarah Hutchins Killikelly - 1886 - 420 halaman
...when asked which was the greater art, painting or sculpture ? Page 69. 52. Of whom is it recorded, " He never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one " ? Page 70. 53. What battle is called the "Battle of Nations"? Page 71. 54. What was the object aimed... | |
| Sarah Hutchins Killikelly - 1886 - 530 halaman
...when asked which was the greater art, painting or sculpture ? Page 69. / 52. Of whom is it recorded, " He never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one " ? Page 70. 53- What battle is called the "Battle of Nations"? Page 71. 54. What was the object aimed... | |
| Lynds Eugene Jones - 1889 - 170 halaman
...all England for the murder of my father." 2. New York. One of his own courtiers remarked of James I., that " he never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one," and certainly his forbidding the London and Plymouth Companies from making any settlement within one... | |
| Virginia Conser Shaffer - 1890 - 160 halaman
...to the king's bedroom door: " Here lies our sovereign lord the king, Whose word no one relies on ; He never said a foolish thing And never did a wise one." Charles II. was succeeded by his brother, James IL, a very unpopular man, dreaded and disliked by nearly... | |
| Philosophical Society of Aberdeen - 1892 - 510 halaman
...safely counted amongst our most loyal fellow-subjects. It has been remarked of one of our own kings that " he never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one." This cannot be quite said of the last king of Kandy. He, at least, did one good action. He made the... | |
| Justin McCarthy - 1894 - 432 halaman
...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... | |
| Arthur Sinclair - 1895 - 248 halaman
...safely counted amongst our most loyal fellowsubjects. It has been remarked of one of our own kings that "he never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one." This cannot be quite said of the last king of Kandy. He, at least, did one good action. He made the... | |
| Frederic Leake - 1896 - 228 halaman
...the King Charles spaniel. Charles was a witty and a disreputable monarch: one current view of him is that he never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one. (Charles had married Catharine of Braganza a daughter of that John of Braganza who had rescued Portugal... | |
| 1898 - 418 halaman
...general nuisance to the kingdom".2 At another time, the same monarch (James I), of whom it has been said, that "he never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one", tritely remarks, that " gentlemen resident on their estates were like ships in port ; their value and... | |
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