 | Matthew Spalding, Patrick J. Garrity - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 244 pages
...policies and sometime critic of Washington. Jefferson gave this more considered view of the man in 1814: "His mind was great and powerful, without being...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,... | |
 | Patricia Pitcher - Business & Economics - 1997 - 290 pages
...to his fellow traveler, the Craftsman, with whom he has a mutual admiration society. The Craftsman His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very first order; his penetration was strong, though not so accurate as that of a Newton, Bacon or Locke; and, asfar as he saw, no judgment... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - History - 1998 - 76 pages
...intimately and thoroughly . . . His mind was great and powerful, without being of the first order; . . . no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation,...by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion ... He was incapable of fear, meeting personal dangers with the calmest unconcern. Perhaps the strongest... | |
 | Norm Ledgin - Asperger's syndrome - 2000 - 284 pages
...upon Washington's character see Jefferson to Dr. Walter Jones, January 2, 1814, Writings, 1317-21. 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... | |
 | Marvin Kitman - History - 2000 - 372 pages
...and powerful," said Thomas Jefferson, but that mind, he added, was not "of the very first order. ... It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination but sure in conclusion"43 — George Washington, I'm sure, always counted his change! Adams had begun to question... | |
 | Jeffrey F. Meyer - Religion - 2001 - 382 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 . . . and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided... | |
 | Harold I. Gullan - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 414 pages
...policy, with President Washington the ideal national figurehead. To Thomas Jefferson, Washington's "mind was great and powerful without being of the very first order." It puts one in mind of a later president who also had a domineering mother; Oliver Wendell Holmes viewed... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 376 pages
...by books, the seventy-oneyear-old Jefferson began immediately to amass yet another personal library. 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,... | |
 | Robert Francis Jones - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 274 pages
...but especially when he was serving as president. Thomas Jefferson once wrote that Washington's mind was "slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion."8 :1 Thomas Jefferson to Walter Jones, Jan. 2, 1814, in Peterson, Jefferson: Writings,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 2003 - 276 pages
...from the principles of the American Revolution and had become too allied with "the harlot England." 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... | |
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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... 
