 John Adams was our colossus on the floor. Not graceful, not elegant, not always fluent in his public addresses, he yet came out with a power, both of thought and of expression, which moved us from our seats.  Dealings with the Dead - 276 ページLucius Manlius Sargent 著 - 1856 - 698 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
 | 1826 - 438 ページ
...you, ' John Adams was our Colossus on the floor. Not graceful, not elegant, not always fluent in his public addresses, he yet came out with a power, both of thought and of expression, which moved us from our seats.' Forthe part which he was here to perform, Mr. Adams... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1826 - 74 ページ
...you, ' JOHN ADAMS was our Colossus on the floor. Not graceful, not elegant. not always fluent, in his public addresses, he yet came out with a power, both of thought and of expression, which moved us from our seats.' For the part which he was here to perform, Mr. Adams... | |
 | William Cranch - 1827 - 140 ページ
...Adams," said he, " was our Colossus on the floor. Not graceful, not elegant, not always fluent in his public addresses, he yet came out with a power both, of thought and expression, which moved us from our seats."* He was master of every topic connected with the subject. Nothing in history, or... | |
 | 1827 - 564 ページ
...you, ' John Adams was our Colossus on the floor. Not graceful, not eloquent, not always fluent, in his public addresses, he yet came out with a power, both of thought and of expression, which moved us from our seats.' For the part which he was here to perform, Mr. Adams... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1827 - 650 ページ
...our colossus on the floor. Not graceful, not elegant, not always fluent in his public addresses, he came out with a power both of thought and expression, which moved ua from our seats." The congress sat with closed doors, and no report has come down to us of any of... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1879 - 634 ページ
...observed, that he was " the Colossus ofthat congress: not graceful, not elegant, not always fluent in his public addresses, he yet came out with a power, both of thought and expression, which VOL. i. 5 moved his hearers from their seats." — Mr. Silas Dcane, who was a commissioner, with Dr.... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1829 - 494 ページ
...one occasion, 'was our Colossus on the floor ; not graceful, not elegant, not always fluent in his public addresses, he yet came out with a power, both of thought and of expression, that moved us from our seats ;" and at another time, he said, ' John Adams was the pillar... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 ページ
...you, " JOHN ADAMS was our colossus on the floor. Not graceful, not elegant, not always fluent, in his public addresses, he yet came out with a power, both of thought and of expression, which moved us from our seats." For the part which he was here to perform, Mr. Adams... | |
 | William Allen - 1832 - 820 ページ
...Adams." — " He was the colossus of that congress: not graceful, not eloquent, not ahrays'fluent in his public addresses, he yet came out with a power both of thought and expression, which moved his hearers from their seats." On the next day Mr. Adams wrote the following letter to his wife, dated... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 568 ページ
...said " John Adams was our Colossus on the floor. Not graceful, not elegant, not always fluent in his public addresses, he yet came out with a power. both of thought and of expression, which moved us from our seats." The grandeur, and the terror of that scene transcend... | |
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