...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...

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...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,...

...words. In public, when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short, and embarrassed. . . . His education was merely reading, writing and common...arithmetic, to which he added surveying at a later day. . . . On the whole, his character was, in its mass, perfect, in nothing bad, in a few points indifferent;...

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...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 common arithmetic, to which he added surveying in a later day. His time was employed in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriculture...

...Subdivision MO, In charge. Some idea of the road in winter maybe obtained by the following illustrations. conversation with the world, for his education was...arithmetic, to which he added surveying at a later day. On the whole, his character was. in its mass, perfect — in nothing bad, in few points indifferent...