 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 oldal
...acute as that of Newton, Bacon, or Locke ; 1 and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention...general ever planned his battles more judiciously. But if deranged during the course of the action, if any member of his plan was dislocated by sudden... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1898 - 580 oldal
...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 invention...General ever planned his battles more judiciously. But if deranged during the course of the action, if any member of his plan was dislocated by sudden... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore, O. H. Tiffany - 1885 - 792 oldal
...acute as that of Newton, Bacon, or Locke ; and, as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion. He was incapable of fear when once decided, going through with his purpose whatever obstacle might... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 518 oldal
...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 invention...sure in conclusion. Hence the common remark of his I officers, of the advantage he derived from councils of war, where hearing all sugges; lions, he selected... | |
 | Charles Cooper King - 1894 - 306 oldal
...Howe's loss amounted to about 500 men only. His old waiting game was better, " for his intelligence was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion." * He was quick in seeing the errors in the enemy's broad general dispositions, deliberate in recognising... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - 1895 - 466 oldal
...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 invention...general ever planned his battles more judiciously. But if deranged during the course of the action, if any member of his plan was dislocated by sudden... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1897 - 378 oldal
...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 invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion." IV RELATIONS WITH THE FAIR SEX THE book from which Washington derived almost the whole of his education... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1896 - 378 oldal
...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 invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion." IV RELATIONS WITH THE FAIR SEX THE book from which Washington derived almost the whole of his education... | |
 | 1897 - 328 oldal
...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 invention...general ever planned his battles more judiciously. But if deranged during the course of the action, if any member of his plan was dislocated by sudden... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 548 oldal
...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 invention...general ever planned his battles more judiciously. But if deranged in the course of the action — if any member of his plan was dislocated by sudden... | |
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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... 
