 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 662 Seiten
...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...but sure in conclusion. Hence the common remark of his officers, of the advantage he derived from councils of war, where, hearing all suggestions, he... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 Seiten
...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...but sure in conclusion. Hence the common remark of his officers, of the advantage he derived from councils of war, where, hearing all suggestions, he... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 552 Seiten
...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...slow in operation, being little aided by invention ov imagination, but sure in conclusion. Hence the common remark of his officers, of the advantage he... | |
 | 1830 - 652 Seiten
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 | 1830 - 658 Seiten
...latter, sketched by the same hand, cannot but prove, under those circumstances, very interesting. ' His mind was great and powerful, without being of...but sure in conclusion. Hence the common remark of his officers, of tlie advantage he derived from councils of war, where, hearing all suggestions, he... | |
 | 1830 - 592 Seiten
...addressed to Dr. Walter Jones (Vol. iv. p. 240), which contains the following character of Washington. ' His mind was great and powerful, without being of...Newton, Bacon, or Locke ; and as far as he saw, no judgement was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination,... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 568 Seiten
...without being of the very first order ; his penetration strong, though not so acute as that of a INewton, Bacon, or Locke; and as far as he saw, no judgment...but sure in conclusion. Hence the common remark of his officers, of the advantage he derived from councils of war, where, hearing all suggestions, he... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 982 Seiten
...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...penetration strong, though not so acute as that of a INewton, Bacon, or Locke ; and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation,... | |
 | 1843 - 854 Seiten
...character, and the leader of the party opposed to Washington's general policy. It is as follows : — ' His mind was great and powerful, without being of...but sure in conclusion. Hence the common remark of his officers, of the advantage he derived from councils of war, where hearing all suggestions, he selected... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - 1833 - 408 Seiten
...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...but sure in conclusion. Hence the common remark of his officers, of the advantage he derived from councils of war, where hearing all suggestions, he selected... | |
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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... 
