 Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration was maturely weighed ; refraining if he saw a doubt, but when once decided, going through with his purpose, whatever obstacles opposed....  The Life of Thomas Jefferson - Página 573de Henry Stephens Randall - 1858Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William Spohn Baker - 1887 - 360 páginas
...entertaining any foolish design of personal aggrandizement. After a long experience Jefferson said of him, "His integrity was most pure; his justice the most inflexible I have ever known,—no motives of interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred, being able to bias his decision."*... | |
 | 1888 - 892 páginas
...Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until even- circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed; refraining...his decision. He was, indeed, in every sense of the word, a wise, a good, and a great man. His temper was naturally irritable and high toned; but reflection... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1889 - 524 páginas
...never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed; refraining if he ii saw a doubt, but, when once decided, going through...inflexible I have ever known, no motives of interest or consanguinity,3 of friendship or hatred, being able to bias4 his so decision. He was, indeed, in every... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore, O. H. Tiffany - 1885 - 792 páginas
...incapable of fear when once decided, going through with his purpose whatever obstacle might oppose. His integrity was most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known. He was indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, good, and great man. On the whole, his character... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - 1895 - 456 páginas
...purpose, whatever obstacles opposed. His integrity was most pure ; his justice the most inflexible ; no motives of interest or consanguinity, of friendship...or hatred, being able to bias his decision. He was, in every sense of the word, a wise, a good, and a great man. His temper was naturally irritable and... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - 1895 - 466 páginas
...Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration was maturely weighed, refraining,...integrity was most pure ; his justice the most inflexible ; no motives of interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred, being able to bias his decision.... | |
 | Elizabeth Bryant Johnston - 1895 - 270 páginas
...Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration was maturely weighed ; refraining...whatever obstacles opposed. . . . His integrity was pure, his justice the most inflexible I ever knew." Thomas Jefferson ( Virginia). AUGUST SECOND. 1755... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1896 - 378 páginas
...the polling town. Both his enemies and his friends bore evidence to his honesty. Jefferson said, " his integrity was most pure, his justice the most...ever known, no motives of interest or consanguinity or friendship or hatred, being able to bias his decision. He was indeed in every sense of the words,... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1897 - 378 páginas
...the polling town. Both his enemies and his friends bore evidence to his honesty. Jefferson said, " his integrity was most pure, his justice the most...ever known, no motives of interest or consanguinity or friendship or hatred, being able to bias his decision. He was indeed in every sense of the words,... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1896 - 486 páginas
...integrity was the most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known," writes Jefferson, " no motives of interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred, being able to bias his decision." They say of Giotto that he introduced goodness into the art of painting ; "Washington carried it with... | |
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