...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 GREAT MADAM. "—P. 265, 1. 6, bottom. The Duchess of Portsmouth, Charles II.'s favourite mistress...

...to the second Charles — AMERICAN LEGISLATORS. 109 ^.- : .f .,',' ; ,- • ', ...-.-i .- v n.., , " Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." It is not right that these men should be judged exclusively by their words ; their actions also must...

...of the wits of his court : — Here lies our sovereign lord tha king, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one. This was shown to Charles, and he said, in his pleasant way, that it was very true; for his words were...

...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...

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...eminence, are apt to acquire a taste for the perturbing pursuits of fashion or ambition. Charles II. (" who never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one") was wont to remark that he considered the country yeomen to be the happiest class of people in his dominions,...

...face the following 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." The ladies who were present never failed to blush and look down on hearing witty inuendos, until the...

...an unfavourable opinion of my judgment—and, after all, ma'am, of the two classes of people, those who ' never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one,' and those who never did a foolish thing and never said a wise one, would not you rather that I should...

...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...

...majesty's chamber door : — " 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." " It is very true," replied Charles, after he had read the lines, " my doings are those of my ministers,...