 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1917 - 426 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 ; for his education was merely reading, 5 writing, and common arithmetic, to which he added surveying at a later day. His time was employed... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Lura E. Runkel, Clara E. Lynch, George Linnaeus Marsh - 1918 - 536 Seiten
...most graceful figure that could be seen on horseback. He wrote readily, in an easy and correct style. This he had acquired by conversation with the world,...for his education was merely reading, writing, and arithmetic, to which he had added surveying at a later day. 262 It may truly be said that never did... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1919 - 424 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 ; for his education was merely reading, 5 writing, and common arithmetic, to which he added surveying at a later day. His time was employed... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck, Lura E. Runkel - 1921 - 618 Seiten
...diffusely, in an easy and correct style. This he had acquired by conversation with the world, for 15 his education was merely reading, writing, and common...necessarily extensive, and, with journalizing his agricul-0 tural proceedings, occupied most of his leisure hours within-doors. On the whole, his character... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1920 - 424 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; for his education was merely reading, 5 writing, and common arithmetic, to which he added surveying at a later day. His time was employed... | |
 | William Harris Elson - 1921 - 520 Seiten
...diffusely, in an easy and correct style. This he had acquired by conversation with the world, for is his education was merely reading, writing, and common...necessarily extensive, and, with journalizing his agricul20 tural proceedings, occupied most of his leisure hours within-doors. On the whole, his character... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1926 - 654 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,...and that only in agriculture and English history. ... On the whole, his character was, in its mass, perfect, in nothing bad, in few points indifferent;... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1970 - 420 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,...and that only in agriculture and English history. . . . On the whole, his character was, in its mass, perfect, in nothing bad, in few points indifferent;... | |
 | Tamara Plakins Thornton - 1996 - 268 Seiten
...when he commented that George Washington "wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy, correct style. This he had acquired by conversation with the world,...arithmetic, to which he added surveying at a later day." Here then was the "easiness of Gesture" recommended as one of the essentials of a fine gentleman's... | |
 | Paul K. Longmore - 1999 - 356 Seiten
...past dispute." Thomas Jefferson more temperately declared that his fellow Virginian spent his time "in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriculture and English history."3 Though he accumulated a library of some nine hundred volumes on a wide range of subjects,... | |
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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... 
