 | 1902 - 494 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... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1902 - 564 Seiten
...copiousness of ideas nor fluency of words. 8. 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... | |
 | 1902 - 424 Seiten
...copiousness of ideas nor fluency of words. In pnblic, 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. 6. His time was employed in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriculture and English... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1903 - 554 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...day. His time was employed in action chiefly, reading littk-, and that only in agriculture and English history. His correspondence became necessarily extensive,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1903 - 550 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...was merely reading, writing and common arithmetic, VOL. XIV 4 to which he added surveying at a later day. His time was employed in action chiefly, reading... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1903 - 556 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...was merely reading, writing and common arithmetic, VOL. XIV — 4 to which he added surveying at a later day. His time was employed in action chiefly,... | |
 | Sarah E. Sprague - 1904 - 272 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 diffusely, in an easy, correct style. This he had acquired by conversation with the world ; for his education was merely reading,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1905 - 334 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... | |
 | 1906 - 334 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... | |
 | Georgia Alexander, Grace Alexander - 1909 - 392 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... 
