 | Alexander Graydon - History - 1811 - 394 pages
...opinion, a stronger mind, or whose mode of expression was more: vehement and oratorical. His style was a singular compound of local barbarisms, scriptural phrases* and oriental wildness ; and though unclassic and sometimes ungrammatical, it was highly animated and forcible. In the following... | |
 | Alexander Graydon - Pennsylvania - 1822 - 454 pages
...my opinion, a stronger mind, or whose mode of expression was more vehement and oratorical. His style was a singular compound of local barbarisms, scriptural phrases, and oriental wildness ; and though unclassic, and sometimes ungrammatical, it was highly animated and forcible. In the following... | |
 | Alexander Graydon - 1846 - 532 pages
...my opinion, a stronger mind, or whose mode of expression was more vehement and oratorical. His style was a singular compound of local barbarisms, scriptural phrases, and oriental wildness ; and though unclassic and sometimes ungrammatical, it was highly animated and forcible. In the following... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 1384 pages
...robustness of mind and body, and his fearless spirit. He had a kind of rough eloquence, also, that wag very effective with his followers. " His style," says...barbarisms, Scriptural phrases, and oriental wildness ; and though unclassic, and sometimes ungrammatical, was highly animated and forcible." Washington, in one... | |
 | Washington Irving - Celebrities - 1855 - 566 pages
...as a frontier champion, his robustness of mind and body, and his fearless spirit. He had a kind of rough eloquence, also, that was very effective with...barbarisms, scriptural phrases, and oriental wildness; and though unclassic, and sometimes ungrammatical, was highly animated and forcible." Washington, in one... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 498 pages
...as a frontier champion, his robustness of mind and body, and his fearless spirit. He had a kind of rough eloquence, also, that was very effective with...barbarisms, scriptural phrases, and oriental wildness ; and though unclassic, and sometimes ungrammatical, was highly animated and forcible." Washington, in one... | |
 | Vermont historical society - 1872 - 162 pages
...fitted for the enterprise in question, by his experience as a frontier champion, his robustness of mind and body, and his fearless spirit. He had a rough...oriental wildness; and although unclassic, and sometimes uugrammatical, was highly animated and 125 forcible.' Washington, in one of his letters, says there... | |
 | William Henry Carpenter, Timothy Shay Arthur - Vermont - 1872 - 272 pages
...possessing a Stronger mind, or whose mode of expression was more vehement and oratorical. His style was a singular compound of local barbarisms, scriptural phrases, and oriental wildness; and though unclassic, and sometimes ungrammatical, it was highly animated and forcible. * * * Notwithstanding... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 986 pages
...as a frontier champion, his robustness of mind and body, and his fearless spirit. He had a kind of rough eloquence, also, that was very effective with his followers. " His style," says o:ie, who knew him personally, " was a singular compound of local barbarisms, scriptural phrases, and... | |
 | Washington Irving - United States - 1887 - 666 pages
...as a frontier champion, his robustness of mind and body, and his fearless spirit. He had a kind of rough eloquence, also, that was very effective with...barbarisms, Scriptural phrases, and oriental wildness ; and though unclassic, and sometimes ungrammaticai, was highly animated and forcible." Washington, in one... | |
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His style," says one, who knew him personally, " was a singular compound of local barbarisms, scriptural phrases, and oriental wildness; and though unclassic, and sometimes ungrammatical, was highly animated and forcible. 
