 | William Spohn Baker - 1887 - 360 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... | |
 | 1888 - 892 páginas
...any of Carlyle's splendid dithyrambs, and it is no waste of time to recall and to transcribe it : — 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... | |
 | 1888 - 416 páginas
...character. Thomas Jefferson, his rival, said of him : " His mind was great and powerful without being of the first order ; his penetration strong though not so acute as that of a Newton, a Bacon, or a Locke. His judgment was ever sound ; it was alow in operation, but sure in conclusion.... | |
 | 1889 - 56 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...and, as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. . . . He was indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good and a great man." Physically, also,... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1889 - 524 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...very first order; his penetration strong, though not 3 so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke ;3 and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1898 - 580 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 Perley Poore, O. H. Tiffany - 1885 - 792 páginas
...portraiture of Washington, drawn by Thomas Jefferson, may be read as a personal description of Grant. " His mind was great and powerful, without being of...penetration strong, though not so acute as that of Newton, Bacon, or Locke ; and, as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation,... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 páginas
...following the writing of this letter he became President of the United States. THE CHARACTER OF WASHINGTON His mind was great and powerful, without being of...penetration strong, though not so acute as that of Newton, Bacon, or Locke ; 1 and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 518 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...sure in conclusion. Hence the common remark of his I officers, of the advantage he derived from councils of war, where hearing all sugges; lions, he selected... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - 1895 - 456 páginas
...proportioned to the justice of your cause. — CHARLES JAMES Fox. JEFFERSON'S ESTIMATE OF 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... | |
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His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very first order ; his penetration strong, though not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke ; and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided... 
