 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...bad, in few points indifferent; and it may truly be said, that never did nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great, and to place him...remembrance. For his was the singular destiny and merit, of lending the armies of his country successfully through an arduous war, for the establishment of its... | |
 | 1830 - 658 pages
...bad, in few points indifferent; and it may truly be said, that never did nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great, and to place him...have merited from man an everlasting remembrance.'— pp. 241, 242. In another place, speaking of General Washington in his capacity of senator, Jefferson... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 982 pages
...bad, in few points indifferent ; and it may truly be said, that never did nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great, and to place him...everlasting remembrance. For his was the singular OO destiny and merit of leading the armies of his country successfully through an arduous war, for... | |
 | Henry Lee - Literary Criticism - 1832 - 288 pages
...confesses, " was in every sense of the words, a wise, a good, and a great man ;" and who " had the singular merit of leading the armies of his country successfully...arduous war, for the establishment of its independence, and of conducting its councils through the biith of a government new in its forms and principles, until... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - Presidents - 1833 - 408 pages
...bad, in few points indifferent;' and it may truly be said, that never did nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great, and to place him...constellation with whatever worthies have merited from man our everlasting remembrance. For his was the singular destiny and merit of leading the armies of his... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 854 pages
...bad, in a few points indifferent ; and it may truly be said, that never did nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great, and to place him...constellation with whatever worthies have merited from m&n an everlasting remembrance. For his was the singular destiny and merit of leading the armies of... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - Economic history - 1837 - 428 pages
...bad, in few things indifferent ; and it may truly be said, that never did nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great, and to place him...have merited from man an everlasting remembrance."-)- The friendship in old age between himself and Mr. Adams, and the moral and intellectual beauty of their... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - Economic history - 1837 - 452 pages
...bad, in few things indifferent ; and it may truly be said, that never did nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great, and to place him...whatever worthies have merited from man an everlasting remembrance."f The friendship in old age between himself and Mr. Adams, and the moral and intellectual... | |
 | 1838 - 556 pages
...it may truly be said, that never did nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a great man, and to place him in the same constellation with whatever...destiny and merit of leading the armies of his country suscessfully through an arduous war, for the establishment of its independence ; of conducting its... | |
 | John Frost - North America - 1838 - 400 pages
...bad, in few points indifferent; and it may truly be said, that never did nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great, and to place him...have merited from man an everlasting remembrance." ' 284 CHAPTER XXXIV. . ADMINISTRATION OF JOHN ADAMS. THE new president had been elected by the votes... | |
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On the whole, his character was, in its mass, perfect; in nothing bad, in few points indifferent; and it may truly be said that never did Nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great, and to place him in the same constellation with whatever... 
