Gibbon, vol. ix. p. 94.:—
"In every deed of mischief, he (Andronicus Comnenus) had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute."
Cf. Voltaire, "Siècle de Louis XV." (Oeuvres, xxi. p. 67.):—
"Il (le Chevalier de Belle-Isle) était capable de tout imaginer, de tout arranger, et de tout faire."
"Guerre aux chateaux, paix à la chaumière,"
ascribed to Condorcet, in Edin. Rev. April, 1800. p. 240. (note*)
By Thiers (Hist. de la Rév. Franç. Par. 1846. 8vo. ii. 283.), these words are attributed to Cambon; while, in Lamartine's Hist. des Girondins (Par. 1847. 8vo.), Merlin is represented to have exclaimed in the Assembly, "Déclarez la guerre aux rois et la paix aux nations."