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Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
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“In a word, he had a head to contrive, and a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischieve, and his death appeared to be a great deliverance to the nation.”
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609–1674) said by 1674 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Compare: "In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute", Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, chap. xlviii.; "Heart to conceive the understanding to dire…
“He many times cast himself upon the ground, with a desperate and obstinate resolution to rest there till the morning, that he might shift with less torment, what hazard soever he run.”
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609–1674) said by 1674 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source