| Sarah Nicholas Randolph - 1871 - 436 pągines
...copiousness of ideas nor fluency of words. In public, wrhen 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... | |
| George Washington - 1871 - 240 pągines
...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... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - 1871 - 758 pągines
...wrote readily, ratner diffusely, in an easy and correct style. This he hud acquired vol.. in. — 41 by conversation with the world, for his education...arithmetic, to which he added surveying at a later day. Ills time wa» employed in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriculture and English... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1871 - 834 pągines
...style. This lie had acquired by conversation with the world, for hia education was merely rending, writing, and common arithmetic, to which he added...later day. His time was employed in action chiefly, na'ling little, and that only in agricultural and English history."— THOMAS JKFFKRSON : Letter to... | |
| 1872 - 556 pągines
...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 journalising... | |
| John Edwin Nixon - 1874 - 148 pągines
...talents were not above mediocrity12. In public, when called on for a sudden 12 opinion, he was unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote" readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct style. 20 On the whole, his character 11 was, in its mass, perfect, in nothing bad, in a few points 11 indifferent.... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 836 pągines
...sndden opinion, he was unreHily, short, anil embarrassed. Yet he. wrote readily, rather dlflusi-lv, in an easy and correct style. This he had acquired by conversation with the world, fur his education wan meMy rending, writing, and common arithmetic, to wliich he added surveying at... | |
| George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 pągines
...embarrassed. \ et he wrote readilv. rather diffusely, in nn easy ' • J and correct style. This he h;.d acquired by conversation with the world, for his education...merely reading, writing, and common arithmetic, to whieh he added surveymg at a later day. His time was employed in action chiefly, reading little. and... | |
| George Rhett Cathcart - 1876 - 452 pągines
...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... | |
| George Rhett Cathcart - 1877 - 454 pągines
...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... | |
| |