 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 328 Seiten
...unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct style. This he had acquired by conversation with the world,...correspondence became necessarily extensive, and with journalising his agricultural proceedings occupied most of his leisure hours within doors. On the whole... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1878 - 446 Seiten
...unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct style. This he had acquired by conversation with the world,...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... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 232 Seiten
...unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct style. This he had acquired by conversation with the world,...in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriciilture and English history. His correspondence became necessarily extensive, and with journalising... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 932 Seiten
...unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct style. This he had acquired by conversation with the world,...later day. His time was employed in action chiefly, rending little, and that only in agriculture and English history. His correspondence became necessarily... | |
 | Hundred greatest men - 1885 - 530 Seiten
...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...common arithmetic, to which he added surveying at a Inter day. His time wae employed in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriculture and... | |
 | Frank McAlpine - 1886 - 456 Seiten
...unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct style. This he had acquired by conversation with the world,...in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agricultural and English history. His correspondence became necessarily extensive, and, with journalizing,... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1889 - 524 Seiten
...readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct style. This he had acquired by conversation with theio world, for his education was merely reading, writing,...and that only in agriculture and English history. is His correspondence became necessarily extensive, and, with journalizing5 his agricultural proceedings,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 518 Seiten
...unready, short and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct style. This he had acquired by conversation with the world,...arithmetic, to which he added surveying at a later day. HU time was employed in action chieflv, reading little, and that only in agriculture and English history.... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1896 - 378 Seiten
...speaking," and Jefferson said that "he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct style. This he had acquired by conversation with the world,...arithmetic, to which he added surveying at a later day." There can be no doubt that Washington felt his lack of education very keenly as he came to act upon... | |
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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... 
