 That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic but powerful to effect great ends; that restless,...  The American Midwest: Essays on Regional History - Page 66edited by - 2001 - 264 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | American Historical Association - Historiography - 1894 - 626 pages
...striking characteristics. That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find...that dominant individualism, working for good and for evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom — these are traits of... | |
 | United States - 1895 - 656 pages
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 | National Society for the Study of Education - Education - 1900 - 1068 pages
...striking characteristics. That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find...that dominant individualism, working for good and for evil, and, withal, that buoyancy and exuberance which come with freedom — these are traits of... | |
 | Albert Bernhardt Faust - Germans - 1909 - 634 pages
...described as follows : i " That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness ; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find...that dominant individualism, working for good and for evil ; and, withal, that buoyancy and exuberance which come with freedom, — these are traits... | |
 | Guy Stanton Ford - History - 1910 - 346 pages
...striking characteristics. That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness ; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find...that dominant individualism, working for good and for evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance that comes from freedom." On the frontier, where... | |
 | American fiction - 1912 - 542 pages
...striking characteristics. That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find...evil, and, withal, that buoyancy and exuberance which come with freedom, — these are traits of the frontier, or traits called out elsewhere because of... | |
 | American fiction - 1912 - 556 pages
...striking characteristics. That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find...evil, and, withal, that buoyancy and exuberance which come with freedom, — these are traits of the frontier, or traits called out elsewhere because of... | |
 | Wilmer Carlyle Harris - Michigan - 1917 - 198 pages
...Michigan Republicanism. He had "that coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical inventive turn of mind, quick to find...restless nervous energy, that dominant individualism and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes from freedom"7 — traits of the frontier or "traits... | |
 | Michigan - 1917 - 198 pages
...Michigan Republicanism. He had "that coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical inventive turn of mind, quick to find...restless nervous energy, that dominant individualism and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes from freedom"7 — traits of the frontier or "traits... | |
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