 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...  Genes, Brains, and Politics: Self-Selection and Social Lifeefter Elliott White - 1993 - 193 sidorIngen förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Patricia Pitcher - 1997 - 290 sidor
...to his fellow traveler, the Craftsman, with whom he has a mutual admiration society. The Craftsman His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very first order; his penetration was strong, though not so accurate as that of a Newton, Bacon or Locke; and, asfar as he saw, no judgment... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1999 - 676 sidor
...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...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 by... | |
 | Norm Ledgin - 2000 - 284 sidor
...upon Washington's character see Jefferson to Dr. Walter Jones, January 2, 1814, Writings, 1317-21. His mind was great and powerful, without being of...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 by... | |
 | Jeffrey F. Meyer - 2001 - 382 sidor
...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 the very first order . . . and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided... | |
 | Harold I. Gullan - 2001 - 414 sidor
...policy, with President Washington the ideal national figurehead. To Thomas Jefferson, Washington's "mind was great and powerful without being of the very first order." It puts one in mind of a later president who also had a domineering mother; Oliver Wendell Holmes viewed... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - 2002 - 376 sidor
...by books, the seventy-oneyear-old Jefferson began immediately to amass yet another personal library. His mind was great and powerful, without being of...not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke; and as far as he saw, no judgement was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 2003 - 276 sidor
...from the principles of the American Revolution and had become too allied with "the harlot England." His mind was great and powerful, without being of...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 by... | |
 | Lon Cantor - 2003 - 244 sidor
...opposite sides of any issue. Thomas Jefferson, with whom Washington himself often disagreed, said: "His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very first order; and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder." At the end of his first term as president, Washington... | |
 | R. B. Bernstein - 2004 - 258 sidor
...private, taking time to reach decisions. Decades later, Jefferson recalled that 118 [Washington's] mind was great and powerful, without being of the...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 by... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 2004 - 178 sidor
...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 the...penetration strong, though not so acute as that of Newton, Bacon, or Locke; and, as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. He was incapable of fear,... | |
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