 | Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1829 - 552 pages
...know, was fine, his stature exactly what one would wish, his deportment easy, erect and noble ; the best horseman of his age, and the most graceful figure...ideas, nor fluency of words. In public, when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...know, was fine, his stature exactly what one would wish, his deportment easy, erect, and noble ; the best horseman of his age, and the most graceful figure...ideas, nor fluency of words. In public, when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rat hit diffusely,... | |
 | 1830 - 592 pages
...was fine ; his stature, exactly what one would wish ; his deportment, easy, erect, and noble ; the best horseman of his age, and the most graceful figure...ideas, nor fluency of words. In public, when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely,... | |
 | 1830 - 658 pages
...know, was fine, his stature exactly what one would wish, his deportment easy, erect, and noble; the best horseman of his age, and the most graceful figure...ideas, nor fluency of words. In public, when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely,... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 982 pages
...know, was fine, his stature exactly what one would wish, his deportment easy, erect and noble ; the best horseman of his age, and the most graceful figure...ideas nor fluency of words. In public, when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely,... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 568 pages
...know, was fine, his stature exactly what one would wish, his deportment easy, erect, and noble ; the best horseman of his age. and the most graceful figure...of his friends. where he might be unreserved with gaiety, he took a free share in conversation, his colloquial talents were not above mediocrity, possessing... | |
 | Henry Lee - Literary Criticism - 1832 - 288 pages
...know, was fine, his stature exactly what one would wish, his deportment easy, erect, and noble ; the best horseman of his age, and the most graceful figure that could be seen on horseback." — " On the whole, his character was, in the mass, perfect, in nothing bad, in few points indifferent... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - Presidents - 1833 - 408 pages
...know, was fine, his stature exactly what one would wish, his deportment easy, erect and noble; the best horseman of his age, and the most graceful figure...ideas, nor fluency of words. In public, when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short and embarrassed; yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 854 pages
...person was fine, his stature exactly what one would wish ; his deportment easy, erect, and noble ; the best horseman of his age, and the most graceful figure that could be seen on horseback. Although m the circle of his friends, where he might be unreserved with safety, he took a free share in conversation,... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 820 pages
...know, was fine, his stature exactly what one would wish ; his deportment easy, erect, and noble; the best horseman of his age, and the most graceful figure...safety, he took a free share in conversation, his coloquial talents were not above mediocrity, possessing icither copiousness of ideas, nor fluency of... | |
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Although in the circle of his friends, where he might be unreserved with safety, he took a free share in conversation, his colloquial talents were not above mediocrity, possessing neither copiousness of ideas, nor fluency of words. In public, when called... 
