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Cyclopaedia of American literature, by E. A. and G. L. Duyckinck - Page 245
by Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866
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Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, Volume 4

Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 594 pages
...opinion, he was unready, short and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct style. This he had acquired by conversation...in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriculture and English history. His correspondence became necessarily extensive, and, with journalising...
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Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J ...

Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...opinion, he was unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rat hit diffusely, in an easy and correct style. This he had acquired by conversation...in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriculture and EngWi history. His correspondence became necessarily extensive, and, with journalizing...
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

1830 - 658 pages
...unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct ityle. This he had acquired by conversation with the world,...in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriculture and English history. His correspondence became necessarily extensive, and, with journalizing...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]

1830 - 592 pages
...opinion, he was unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct style. This he had acquired by conversation...and common arithmetic, to which he added surveying in a later : day. His time was employed in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriculture...
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Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of ..., Volume 4

Thomas Jefferson - 1830 - 550 pages
...opinion, he was unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct style. This he had acquired by conversation...merely reading, writing, and common arithmetic, to wliich he added surveying at a later day. His time was employed in action chiefly, reading little,...
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Sketches of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of Thomas Jefferson: With ...

B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 982 pages
...opinion, he was unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct style. This he had acquired by conversation...in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriculture and English history. His correspondence became necessarily extensive, and, with journalizing...
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Sketches of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of Thomas Jefferson: With ...

B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 568 pages
...unready. short. and embarrassed. Yet ho wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct stylo. This he had acquired by conversation with the world,...in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriculture and English history. His correspondence became necessarily extensive, and, with journalizing...
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Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful ..., Volume 27

1843 - 854 pages
...opinion, he was unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in au easy and correct style. This he had acquired by conversation...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....
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The Lives of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson: With a Parallel ...

Stephen Simpson - 1833 - 408 pages
...opinion, he was unready, short and embarrassed; yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct style. This he had acquired by conversation...with the world; for his education was merely reading, writ^ ing and common arithmetic, to which he added surveying at a later day. His time was employed...
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The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States ..., Volume 2

George Tucker - 1837 - 608 pages
...opinion, he was unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct style. This he had acquired by conversation...in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriculture and English history. His correspondVOL. n. 2 c encc became necessarily extensive, and with...
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