 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
 | Georgia Alexander, Grace Alexander - 1909 - 392 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... | |
 | Georgia Alexander - 1909 - 392 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... | |
 | 1909 - 1238 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; his penetration strong, thongh not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke; and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1910 - 424 sidor
...character, it should be in terms like these: His mind was great and powerful, without being of the 5 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 by... | |
 | Horace Leslie Brittain - 1911 - 284 sidor
...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...penetration strong, though not so acute as that of a Newton,1 Bacon,2 or Locke ; 3 and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation,... | |
 | Charles Leonard-Stuart - 1912 - 644 sidor
...estimate of the character and intellect of the great American patriot is from President Jefferson : " His mind was great and powerful, without being of...not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke ; and, so far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided... | |
 | 1912 - 540 sidor
...were dancing." — Written when he was a surveyor at sixteen years of age. Jefferson's Description. 4. His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very first order, as that of Xewton or Bacon or Locke, and as far as he saw no judgment was sounder. It was slow in operation,... | |
 | 1884 - 624 sidor
...fills so eminent a place among the great men of America as Jefferson.—Lord Brmigham. Washington. 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... | |
 | United States. National Park Service. Region One - 1938 - 412 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... | |
 | Matthew Spalding, Patrick J. Garrity - 1996 - 244 sidor
...policies and sometime critic of Washington. Jefferson gave this more considered view of the man in 1814: "His mind was great and powerful, without being of...penetration strong, though not so acute as that of Newton, Bacon or Locke; and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation,... | |
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