 | John Quincy Adams - 1875 - 556 Seiten
...reserved, cold, austere, and forbidding manners; my political adversaries say, a gloomy misanthropist, and my personal enemies, an unsocial savage. With...Venezuela. He is a fanatic to the South American cause, arid sees everything through the medium of his prejudices. Such a person is always a bad observer.... | |
 | Claude Gernade Bowers - 1922 - 560 Seiten
...he wrote, "cold, austere and forbidding manners. My political adversaries say a gloomy misanthrope; my personal enemies, an unsocial savage. With a knowledge of the actual defects of my character, I have not had the pliability to reform it." That such a man, entertaining... | |
 | William Barnes, John Heath Morgan - 1961 - 452 Seiten
...reserved, cold, austere, and forbidding manners; my political adversaries say, a gloomy misanthropist, and my personal enemies, an unsocial savage. With...character I have not the pliability to reform it." 5S Despite these harsh and crotchety personal idiosyncrasies, 57 Quoted in Graham H. Stuart, The Department... | |
 | Catherine Allgor - 2000 - 324 Seiten
...reserved, cold, austere, and forbidding manners; my political adversaries say, a gloomy misanthropist, and my personal enemies, an unsocial savage. With...character, I have not the pliability to reform it." Though John Quincy placed the blame for his public silence on childhood admonitions to be seen and... | |
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I am a man of reserved, cold, austere, and forbidding manners; my political adversaries say, a gloomy misanthropist, and my personal enemies, an unsocial savage. With a knowledge of the actual defect in my character, I have not the pliability to reform... 