 | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné - 1811 - 354 sider
...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 - 878 sider
...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - 1821 - 612 sider
...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) - 1821 - 596 sider
...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 - 450 sider
...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 - 444 sider
...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 - 1028 sider
...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 - 536 sider
...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 - 584 sider
...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 - 590 sider
...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... 
