 | Georgia 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...by conversation with the world; for his education 143 was merely reading, writing, and common arithmetic, to which he added surveying at a later day.... | |
 | 1909 - 1238 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...an easy and correct style. This he had acquired by principles, until it had settled down into a quiet and orderly train ; and of scrnpnlonsly obeying... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1910 - 424 Seiten
...nor fluency of words. In public, when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short, and *S embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely,...arithmetic, to which he added surveying at a later day. SO His time was employed in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriculture and English... | |
 | Horace Leslie Brittain - 1911 - 284 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... | |
 | Charles Leonard-Stuart - 1912 - 644 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 and correct style. He read little, and that only on the subjects of agriculture and English history." Washington, Treaty... | |
 | 1884 - 624 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... | |
 | Clara Beverley - 1914 - 168 Seiten
...that could be seen on horseback. " 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."—Thomas Jefferson. Read these paragraphs until you understand them. Can you refer to any acts... | |
 | Sarah Emma Simons - 1915 - 492 Seiten
...that could be seen on horseback. ... 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 Norman Guthrie - 1917 - 168 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... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1917 - 426 Seiten
...of his age, and the most graceful figure that could be seen on horseback. opinion, he was unready, short, and embarrassed ; yet he wrote readily, rather...the world ; for his education was merely reading, 5 writing, and common arithmetic, to which he added surveying at a later day. His time was employed... | |
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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... 
