| Charles Cooper King - 1894 - 306 páginas
...Howe's loss amounted to about 500 men only. His old waiting game was better, " for his intelligence was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion." * He was quick in seeing the errors in the enemy's broad general dispositions, deliberate in recognising... | |
| Paul Leicester Ford - 1896 - 378 páginas
...Colonel Washington is unquestionably the greatest man on the floor;" while Jefferson asserted that " his mind was great and powerful, without being of...invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion." IV RELATIONS WITH THE FAIR SEX THE book from which Washington derived almost the whole of his education... | |
| 1897 - 330 páginas
...is from the pen of his fellow-laborer in the cause of American independence— Thomas Jefferson .1 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... | |
| Paul Leicester Ford - 1896 - 376 páginas
...Colonel Washington is unquestionably the greatest man on the floor ;" while Jefferson asserted that "his mind was great and powerful, without being of...invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion." IV RELATIONS WITH THE FAIR SEX THE book from which Washington derived almost the whole of his education... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 552 páginas
...of Washington, contained in a letter to Dr. Walter Jones, written in 1814. CHARACTER 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... | |
| Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 578 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...conclusion. Hence the common remark of his officers, of the advantage he derived from councils of war, where, hearing all suggestions, he selected whatever... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1899 - 442 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...conclusion. Hence the common remark of his officers, of the advantage he derived from councils of war, where, hearing all suggestions, he selected whatever... | |
| 1899 - 408 páginas
...flaw, a gust of wind. veer' ing, turning. haw' thorn, a thorny shrub. WASHINGTON. THOMAS 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... | |
| 1899 - 434 páginas
...flaw, a gust of wind. veer' ing, turning. haw' thorn, a thornj shrub. WASHINGTON. THOMAS 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... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - 1899 - 546 páginas
...of Washington, contained in a letter to Dr. Walter Jones, written in 1814. CHARACTER 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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