 | Sir John Collings Squire, Rolfe Arnold Scott-James - 1922 - 738 pages
...a very subtle refinement. He has realised that almost every man would choose to be like Charles II, who never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one. Mr. Prohack's trail through his new world is luminous with apt and amusing verbiage ; and here again,... | |
 | United States. Civil Aeronautics Administration - 1948 - 822 pages
...pinned to the door of his bedchamber: Here lies our sovereign lord, the King Whose word no man relics on Who never said a foolish thing And never did a wise one. Charles' retort was that his words were his own but his acts were his ministers'. This proposal was... | |
 | Harry St. John Bridger Philby - 1953 - 340 pages
...but lacking in judgment and easily flustered in a crisis: in fact, like Charles II of England, a man who "never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one." The general ineptitude of 'Abdullah and the chaotic state of his realm were in striking contrast with... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - 490 pages
...else shall we explain his tolerance of Rochester's epigrammatic epitaph? Here lies a Great and Mighty King Whose Promise none relies on, Who never said a Foolish Thing Nor ever did a Wise One. At times, as in The Commons Petition to King Charles II, Rochester's wit must... | |
 | 1923 - 748 pages
...is James the Sixth of Scotland and the First of England — the king, according to the old waggery, "who never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one." But see Green. The "wanton laird of young Logic" is John Wemyss who plotted against him with the Earl... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1910 - 128 pages
...of his courtiers suggested as his epitaph : Here lies our sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on, Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one. * I am indebted to The Autobiography of Sir Robert Sibbald, Edinburgh, 1833, for the facts regarding... | |
 | 1903 - 1096 pages
...our polished rulers, James the First, ' the wisest fool in Christendom,' and Charles the Second, ' who never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one,' confirm that people who have filled themselves with undigested learning can talk most wisely in drawing... | |
 | 1901 - 1328 pages
...very means of preserving that liberal park scenery whereof Englishmen are so justly proud. The King who never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one, is reported to have described trees as natural excrescences of the earth supplied by Providence for... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1902 - 368 pages
...poignancy. The lines are well known : — ' Here lies our sovereign lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.' ' The epitaph ! ' exclaimed Tom ; ' why, I was by when it was made; and it passed for an excellent... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...HAP; NAEL-1; NOBL; OBSV; PoEL-3; PPP; WeW Impromptu on Charles II 4 God bless our good and gracious or neither do the Spirits damn'd Loose all thir vertue; lest bad me Nor ever did a wise one. (1. 1 —4) FaBoEE; NBLV; NOBL; OBSV Love a woman! y'are an ass 5 Farewell,... | |
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Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one. 
