| Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 372 páginas
...sustain the supreme laws of the land. 126. CHARACTER or GEORGE WASHINGTON. — Thomas Jefferson. 1. His mind was great and powerful, without being of...order ; his penetration strong, though not so acute as lhat of Newton, Bacon, or Locke : and, as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 614 páginas
...a sketch of Napoleon Bonaparte, by an anonymous writer, published in 1891.] WASHINGTON. JEFFERSON. His mind was great and powerful, without being of...conclusion. Hence the common remark of his officers, of the advantage he derived from councils of war, where, hearing all suggestions, he selected whatever... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 636 páginas
...and thoroughly ; and were I called on to delineate his character, it should be in terms like these. His mind was great and powerful, without being of...conclusion. Hence the common remark of his officers, of the advantage he derived from councils of war, where hearing all suggestions, he selected whatever... | |
| Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1855 - 446 páginas
...thing as motion, and that it was impossible to reach the goal. — Fitz- Stephen. 581. WASHINGTON. — His mind was great and powerful, without being of...conclusion. Hence the common remark of his officers, of the advantage he derived from councils of war, where, hearing all suggestions, he selected whatever... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 páginas
...thoroughly ; and were I called on to delineate his character, it should be in terms like these : — His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very first order ; his penetration Яго-ig, though not so acute as thnt of a Newton, B;»,'on, or Locke; and as far as he saw, no judgment... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1855 - 294 páginas
...thoroughly ; and were I called on to delineate hi* character, it should be in tenus like these: — His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very first order; his penetratiou stro ig, though not so acute as that of a Newton, Unco», or Locke; and ns far as he saw,... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 650 páginas
...we subjoin a sketch of Napoleon Bonaparte, by an anonymous writer, published in 1821.] WASHINGTON. His mind was great and powerful, •without being...as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It waa slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion. Hence... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 704 páginas
...thoroughly ; and were I called on to delineate his character, it should be in terms like these: — His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very first order; his penetration rtro ig, though not so acute as thnt of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke; and as far as he saw, no judgment... | |
| Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1857 - 408 páginas
...say so much and no more, as suits their view "" No. VI. JEFFERSON'S OPINION OF GEORGE WASH INGTON. "" His mind was great and powerful, without being of...he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow iu operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion. Hence the common... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 916 páginas
...and thoroughly ; and were I called on to delineate his character, it should be in terms like these. His mind was great and powerful, without being of...conclusion. Hence the common remark of his officers, of the advantage he derived from councils of war, where hearing all suggestions, he selected whatever... | |
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