 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - Readers - 1920 - 424 pages
...his character, it should be in terms like these : His mind was great and powerful, without being of 5 the very first order; his penetration strong, though...invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion. Hence 10 the common remark of his officers, of the advantage he derived from councils of war, where, hearing... | |
 | William Harris Elson - 1921 - 520 pages
...character, it should be in terms like these: His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very s first order ; his penetration strong, though not so...of his officers, of the advantage he derived from 10 councils of war, where, hearing all suggestions, he selected whatever was best ; and certainly no... | |
 | Maine State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1921 - 406 pages
...recreation." Jefferson's statement respecting Washington was applicable to Nathan Clifford: "His mind was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but he was sure in his conclusions." His associates upon the court leaned upon him more and more; and the... | |
 | John Morley - Philosophy - 1923 - 322 pages
...in any of Carlyle's splendid dithyrambs, and it is no waste of time to recall and to transcribe it : His mind was great and powerful, without being of...the common remark of his officers, of the advantage lie derived from councils of war, where, hearing all suggestions, he selected whatever was best : and... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - Anthologies - 1923 - 252 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 the...sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by imagination or invention, but sure in conclusion «•» Hence the common remark of his officers, of... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck, Lura E. Runkel - Readers - 1921 - 616 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...of his officers, of the advantage he derived from 10 councils of war, where, hearing all suggestions, he selected whatever was best; and certainly no... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 - 1926 - 654 pages
...knew and understood. The whole is too long for quotation ; but an extract will serve our purpose : — "His mind was great and powerful, without being of...invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion. ... He was incapable of fear, meeting personal dangers with the calmest unconcern. Perhaps the strongest... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - History - 1926 - 514 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...not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke; THE CHARACTER OF WASHINGTON 189 and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in... | |
 | Robert Shafer - American literature - 1926 - 1410 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 the very first order; his penetration 1 From a letter written to Walter Jones, 1 January, 1814. Jones had written a paper deploring the low... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1961 - 130 pages
...not have come out very well. We have the testimony of Jefferson, wh J knew him well, that "as far ns he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow...invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion. * * * If deranged during the course of the action * * * he was slow in readjustment. * * * Perhaps... | |
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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... 
