 | George Tucker - 1837 - 608 pages
...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 correspondVOL. n. 2 c encc became necessarily extensive, and with... | |
 | English literature - 1838 - 564 pages
...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... | |
 | 1838 - 556 pages
...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...reading, writing, and common arithmetic, to which lie added surveying at a later day. His time was- employed in action chiefly, reading little, and that... | |
 | John Frost - North America - 1838 - 400 pages
...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 had been merely reading, writing, and arithmetic. His time was employed in action chiefly, reading... | |
 | John Frost - North America - 1838 - 404 pages
...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 had been merely... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - History - 1839 - 384 pages
...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...merely reading, writing and common arithmetic, to which ho added surveying at a later day. His time was employed in action chiefly, reading little, and that... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 324 pages
...a sudden opinion, he was unready, short and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in correct style. This he had acquired by conversation...and that only in agricultural and English history. 6. His correspondence became necessarily extensive, and, with journalizing his agricultural proceedings,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 856 pages
...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...and common arithmetic, to which he added surveying. His time was employed in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriculture and English history.... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1843 - 840 pages
...copiousness of ideas nor fluency of words. In pu'ulx. when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unreaJv, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct style. This he nad acquired by conversation with the world, for his education »я, merely reading, writing, and common... | |
 | John Frost - United States - 1844 - 438 pages
...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 had been merely... | |
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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... 
