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.... Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington - Página 214por George Washington Parke Custis - 1860 - 644 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 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, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 518 páginas
...character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed ; refraining if he saw a doubt, but, when once decided,...interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred, being able to bias his decision. He was, indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good, and a... | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - 1895 - 456 páginas
...character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration was maturely weighed, refraining, if he saw a doubt ; but, when once decided,...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 - 268 páginas
...character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration was maturely weighed ; refraining if he saw a doubt, but when once decided,...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,... | |
| 1897 - 328 páginas
...character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration was maturely weighed; refraining if he saw a doubt, but when once decided,...interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred, being able to bias his decision. He was, indeed, in every sense of the word, a wise, a good, and a... | |
| 1897 - 694 páginas
...course ol my life I ever forfeited my word or broke a promise made to any one." Jefferson said of him, " 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,... | |
| Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 578 páginas
...was prudence ; never acting until every .circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed ; refraining if he saw a doubt, but, when once decided,...interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred, being able to bias his decision. He was, indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good, and a... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 548 páginas
...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 obstacle interposed. His integrity was most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known... | |
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