 | William Spohn Baker - 1887 - 360 Seiten
...copiousness of ideas, nor fluency of words. In public when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather...in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriculture and English history. His correspondence became necessarily extensive, and, with journalizing... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1889 - 524 Seiten
...copiousness of ideas nor fluency of words. In public, when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather...correct style. This he had acquired by conversation with theio world, for his education was merely reading, writing, and common arithmetic, to which he added... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1898 - 580 Seiten
...copiousness of ideas, nor fluency of words. In public, when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather...in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriculture and English history. His correspondence became necessarily extensive, and, with journalizing... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 Seiten
...copiousness of ideas nor fluency of words. In public, when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather...correct style. This he had acquired .by conversation l with the world, for his education was merely reading, writing, and common arithmetic, to which he... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1893 - 700 Seiten
...copiousness of ideas nor fluency of words. In public, when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather...in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriculture and English history. His correspondence became necessarily extensive, and, with journalizing... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 518 Seiten
...copiousness of ideas, nor fluency of words. In public, when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather...arithmetic, to which he added surveying at a later day. HU time was employed in action chieflv, reading little, and that only in agriculture and English history.... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - 1895 - 466 Seiten
...copiousness of ideas nor fluency of words. In public, when called upon for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct style. This he acquired by conversation with the world, for his education was merely reading, writing and common arithmetic,... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1897 - 378 Seiten
...adding that, " like the famous Addison, his writing excells his speaking," and Jefferson said that "he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and...arithmetic, to which he added surveying at a later day." There can be no doubt that Washington felt his lack of education very keenly as he came to act upon... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1896 - 378 Seiten
...letter," adding that, "like the famous Addison, his writing excells his speaking," and Jefferson said that "he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and...arithmetic, to which he added surveying at a later day." There can be no doubt that Washington felt his lack of education very keenly as he came to act upon... | |
 | 1897 - 328 Seiten
...copiousness of ideas, nor fluency of words. In public, when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather...in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in Agriculture and English history. His correspondence became necessarily extensive, and with journalizing... | |
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This he had acquired by conversation with the world, for his education was merely reading, writing, and common arithmetic, to which he added surveying at a later day. His time was employed in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriculture... 
