...been engraved on his tomb : — " 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." Yet how weak is even this epigram to express the infamy of a reign, in which the caprice of government...

...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." t The Duchess of Portsmouth, Charles II. 's favourite mistress ; тегу unpopular nt the time of...

...mainly on tradition ; but there is nothing of improbability about it. Her influence over the voluptuous monarch, ' Who never said a foolish thing And never did a wise one," was, at one period, unbounded. It was in this instance, at least, exerted in the cause of mercy and...

...sufficiently authenticated, that in consequence of the civil and ecclesiastical oppression of Charles I., that monarch " who never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one," while the same persecuting spirit was still rife that drove the Pilgrim fathers in 1620 to seek a grave...

...not more severe than just — " 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." After this sketch of the King's character, we must return to Scotland, from which we have been absent...

...that he was a philosopher of a most practical cast. He was not like our Charles the Second, a king " who never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one." He fitted out fleets, which, navigated by Phoenician pilots and mariners, sailed from the Red Sea to...

...of Rochester's jocular epitaph : " Here lies the mutton-eating king, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing And never did a wise one." " Aye," said O'Connell, laughing, "the debauched old vagabond's answer to that epitaph was admirable....

...lines of Rochester's jocular epitaph: " Here lies the mutton-eating king, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing And never did a wise one." "Aye," said O'Connell, laughing, " the debauched old vagabond's answer to that epitaph was admirable....

...the Protectorate ; and, above all, Charles himself, the easy, heartless, good-natured libertine, " Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." Villiers, the profligate Duke of Buckingham, is brought prominently forward ; but in attempting to...

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