| William Beidelman - 1898 - 278 halaman
...after his death, which was as follows: Here lies our mutton-eating king, Whose word no man relies on; He never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one. JAMES n. — Charles II. was succeeded by hia brother James II., a zealous 1 Ionian Catholic. Ilia... | |
| Justin McCarthy - 1898 - 568 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... | |
| Frank Moore Colby - 1899 - 648 halaman
...and the bad government was continuous. It was the reign of the man of whom one of his ministers said that " he never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one." Charles replied, according to the story, that his acts were the acts of his ministers, but his words... | |
| William Thomas Fernie - 1899 - 600 halaman
...wrote the well-known epitaph : — " Here lies our mutton-eating King Whose word no man relied on : He never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." In the Mei-ry Wives of Windsor Shallow asks " Is not the grease of a mutton as wholesome as the sweat... | |
| Great Britain. Board of Education - 1900 - 566 halaman
...this proud priest ? (£) We have this day lighted a tire in England which will never be pnt out. (jj) He never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one. (0) England expects even' man to do his duty. 5. Name as many as you can of the bodies making up the... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1900 - 686 halaman
...this proud priest ? (2) We have this day lighted a fire in England which will never be put out. ( 7)) He never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one. (0) England expects everv man to do his duty. 5. Name as many as you can of the bodies making up the... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 382 halaman
...evidence of the best judges among his contemporaries. The truth of Lord Rochester's famous saying, "that he never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one," has always been admitted. It was also wittily observed by the Duke of Buckingham, that " Charles could... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 386 halaman
...evidence of the best judges among his contemporaries. The truth of Lord Rochester's famous saying, "that he never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one," has always been admitted. It was also wittily observed by the Duke of Buckingham, that " Charles could... | |
| 1909 - 510 halaman
...Second of England, who died heirless in 1685, a wit of the period wrote an inscription for his tomb "that he never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one." This adage would have to be turned round to fit the Kaiser; he never did a foolish thing, but he has... | |
| Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, Charles Edmund Dana - 1904 - 68 halaman
...door of Charles' bedroom : — "Here rests our sovereign lord the king, Whose word no man relies on. He never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." This Charles Stuart was guilty even of the almost incredible meanness of revenging himself on the dead... | |
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