 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...and thoroughly; and were I called on to delineate his character, it should be in terms like these. His mind was great and powerful, without being of...conclusion. Hence the common remark of his officers, of the advantage he derived from councils of war, where, hearing all suggestions, he selected whatever... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 662 pages
...and thoroughly; and were I called on to delineate his character, it should be in terms like these. His mind was great and powerful, without being of...conclusion. Hence the common remark of his officers, of the advantage he derived from councils of war, where, hearing all suggestions, he selected whatever... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1829 - 552 pages
...and thoroughly; and were I called on to delineate his character, it should be in terms like these. His mind was great and powerful, without being of...slow in operation, being little aided by invention ov imagination, but sure in conclusion. Hence the common remark of his officers, of the advantage he... | |
 | 1830 - 592 pages
...addressed to Dr. Walter Jones (Vol. iv. p. 240), which contains the following character of Washington. ' His mind was great and powerful, without being of...Newton, Bacon, or Locke ; and as far as he saw, no judgement was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination,... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 568 pages
...without being of the very first order ; his penetration strong, though not so acute as that of a INewton, Bacon, or Locke; and as far as he saw, no judgment...conclusion. Hence the common remark of his officers, of the advantage he derived from councils of war, where, hearing all suggestions, he selected whatever... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 982 pages
...and thoroughly ; and were I called on to delineate his character, it should be in terms like these. " His mind was great and powerful, without being of...penetration strong, though not so acute as that of a INewton, Bacon, or Locke ; and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 854 pages
...character, and the leader of the party opposed to Washington's general policy. It is as follows : — ' His mind was great and powerful, without being of...conclusion. Hence the common remark of his officers, of the advantage he derived from councils of war, where hearing all suggestions, he selected whatever... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - Presidents - 1833 - 408 pages
...and thoroughly; and were I called on to delineate his character, it should be in terms like these:" "His mind was great and powerful, without being of...conclusion. Hence the common remark of his officers, of the advantage he derived from councils of war, where hearing all suggestions, he selected whatever... | |
 | James Grahame - United States - 1836 - 480 pages
...sketch of Washington's character by the pen of one of his most illustrious friends : — " His judgment was slow in operation, being little aided by invention...conclusion. Hence the common remark of his officers of the advantage he derived from councils of war, where, hearing all suggestions, he selected whatever... | |
 | James Grahame - United States - 1836 - 486 pages
...sketch of Washington's character by the pen of one of his most illustrious friends : — " His judgment was slow in operation, being little aided by invention...conclusion. Hence the common remark of his officers of the advantage he derived from councils of war, where, hearing all suggestions, he selected whatever... | |
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His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very first order ; his penetration strong, though not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke ; and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided... 
