 | Hundred greatest men - 1885 - 530 pages
...summons came. Washington died on the 14th of December, 1799. JEFFERSON'S EST1MATE OF WASHINGTON. — " His mind was great and powerful, without being of...though not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or I/3cke ; and, as far ¡v> he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little... | |
 | Improved illustrated reader - 1885 - 244 pages
...was a part of his nature. He was fearless of danger, and regardless of consequences to himself. 3. His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very first order, and his judgment sound, though slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but... | |
 | Frank McAlpine - 1886 - 456 pages
...intimately and thoroughly: and were I called on to delineate his charater, it would 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. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion. Hence... | |
 | William Spohn Baker - 1887 - 360 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. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion. Hence... | |
 | 1888 - 892 pages
...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...and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion. Hence... | |
 | 1888 - 416 pages
...character. Thomas Jefferson, his rival, said of him : " His mind was great and powerful without being of the first order ; his penetration strong though not so acute as that of a Newton, a Bacon, or a Locke. His judgment was ever sound ; it was alow in operation, but sure in conclusion.... | |
 | 1889 - 56 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. . . . He was indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good and a great man." Physically, also,... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1889 - 524 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...very first order; his penetration strong, though not 3 so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke ;3 and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1898 - 580 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. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion. Hence... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore, O. H. Tiffany - 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,... | |
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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... 
