| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 900 pàgines
...copiousness of ideas nor fluency of words. In public, when called on for a sudden opinion, ne was unready, short, and embarrassed ; yet he wrote readily, rather...and common arithmetic, to which he added surveying. His time was employed in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriculture and English history.... | |
| Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 340 pàgines
...sudden opinion, he was unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in correct style. This he had acquired by conversation...and that only in agricultural and English history. 6. His correspondence became necessarily extensive ; and. with journalizing his agricultural proceedings,... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 614 pàgines
...copiousness of ideas, nor fluency of words. In public, when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather...in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriculture and English history. His correspondence became necessarily extensive, and with journalizing... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 630 pàgines
...copiousness of ideas, nor fluency of words. In public, when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather...was employed in action chiefly, reading little, and tfiat only in agriculture and English history. His correspondence became necessarily extensive, and,... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 636 pàgines
...copiousness of ideas, nor fluency of words. In public, when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather...in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriculture and English history. His correspondence became necessarily extensive, and, with journalizing... | |
| Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1855 - 446 pàgines
...copiousness of ideas nor fluency of words. In public, when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather...correspondence became necessarily extensive, and, with journalising his agricultural proceedings, occupied most of his leisure hours within doors. On the... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1855 - 294 pàgines
...Mullen opinion, he was unready, short, and embarrassed. Л et he wrote readily, ruther diffusely, iu an easy and correct style. This he had acquired by...conversation with the world, for his education was nierelv reading, writing, and common arithmetic, to whicn he added surveying, at a later day. His time... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 650 pàgines
...of words. In public, when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short, and embarrassed. W he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct style. This he hid acquired by conversation with the world, for his education was merely reading, writing and common... | |
| Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1857 - 408 pàgines
...words. In public, when called on for a suddeu opinion, he was unreaiy, short, and embarrassed. Yet 30 he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and...in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriculture and English history. His correspondence became necessarily extensive, and with journalizing... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 766 pàgines
...sudden opinion, he was unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in on easy and correct style. This he had acquired by conversation...in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriculture and English history. Ilia correspondence became necessarily extensive, and, with journalizing... | |
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