 | Sir Isaac Pitman - 1877 - 52 pàgines
...fluency of 'Words. In public, when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short, an4 embarassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy...correct style. This he had acquired by conversation with tho world, for his education was merely reading, writing, and common arithmetic, to which he added... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 508 pàgines
...copiousness of ideas nor fluency of words. 8. 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 - 1878 - 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...surveying at a later day. His time was employed in action chicfly, reading little, and that only in agriculture and English history. His correspondence became... | |
 | English dictation - 1881 - 156 pàgines
...talents were not above mediocrity. In public, when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct style. On the whole, his character was, in its mass, perfect, in nothing bad, in a few points indifferent.... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 232 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 agriciilture and English history. His correspondence became necessarily extensive, and with journalising... | |
 | 1882 - 408 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... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 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... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 932 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...later day. His time was employed in action chiefly, rending little, and that only in agriculture and English history. His correspondence became necessarily... | |
 | Charles H. Evans - 1884 - 234 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 diffusely, in an easy and correct style. He read little, and that only on subjects of agriculture and English history.' But not only Washington's... | |
 | Hundred greatest men - 1885 - 530 pàgines
...copiousness of ideas nor fluency of words. In public when called upon for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy und correct style. This he acquired by conversation with the world, for his education was merely reading,... | |
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This he had acquired by conversation with the world, for his education was merely reading, writing, and common arithmetic, to which he added surveying at a later day. His time was employed in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriculture... 
