 | Benjamin Perley Poore, O. H. Tiffany - Presidents - 1885 - 792 pages
...portraiture of Washington, drawn by Thomas Jefferson, may be read as a personal description of Grant. " His mind was great and powerful, without being of...penetration strong, though not so acute as that of Newton, Bacon, or Locke ; and, as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation,... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1892 - 572 pages
...following the writing of this letter he became President of the United States. THE CHARACTER OF WASHINGTON His mind was great and powerful, without being of...penetration strong, though not so acute as that of Newton, Bacon, or Locke ; 1 and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 518 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...sure in conclusion. Hence the common remark of his I officers, of the advantage he derived from councils of war, where hearing all sugges; lions, he selected... | |
 | Charles Cooper King - 1894 - 306 pages
...Howe's loss amounted to about 500 men only. His old waiting game was better, " for his intelligence was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion." * He was quick in seeing the errors in the enemy's broad general dispositions, deliberate in recognising... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - Biography & Autobiography - 1896 - 378 pages
...Colonel Washington is unquestionably the greatest man on the floor;" while Jefferson asserted that " his mind was great and powerful, without being of...invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion." IV RELATIONS WITH THE FAIR SEX THE book from which Washington derived almost the whole of his education... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1896 - 376 pages
...Colonel Washington is unquestionably the greatest man on the floor ;" while Jefferson asserted that "his mind was great and powerful, without being of...invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion." IV RELATIONS WITH THE FAIR SEX THE book from which Washington derived almost the whole of his education... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - Biography & Autobiography - 1900 - 494 pages
...intimately and thoroughly; and were I called to delineate his character, it should be in terms like these: His mind was great and powerful, without being of...Newton, Bacon, or Locke; and as far as he saw, no judgmerit was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination,... | |
 | 1901 - 208 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...and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. derived from councils of war, where, hearing all suggestions, he selected whatever was best ; and certainly... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1902 - 564 pages
...dust"; — " everlasting to everlasting " (endless past to endless future). CXXI.— WASHINGTON 1. His mind was great and powerful, without being of...and, as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. 2. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion.... | |
 | Agnes Mawson - 1905 - 206 pages
...responsibility and trust ; prepare yourself for a place, and God will prepare a place for you. EDWARD EVERETT. His mind was great and powerful without being of the...penetration strong, though not so acute as that of a Newton, a Bacon or a Locke ; and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation,... | |
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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... 
