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 | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Nicholas Biddle - 1814 - 518 pages
...direction of the party. I had now had opportunities of knowing him intimately. Of courage undaunted; possessing a firmness and perseverance of purpose...but impossibilities could divert from its direction; eareful as a father of those committed to his charge, yet steady in the maintenance of order and discipline;... | |
 | A citizen of Pittsburgh - 1818 - 276 pages
...direction of the party. I had now had opportunities of knowing him intimately. Of courage undaunted ; possessing a firmness and perseverance of purpose,...direction ; careful as a father of those committed to]K'3 charge, yet steady in the maintenance of order and discipline ; intimate with the Indian character,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 608 pages
...following testimony of Mr. Jefferson gives an idea of his fitness for the task : " Of courage undaunted ; possessing a firmness and perseverance of purpose...direction ; careful as a father of those committed to hie charge, yet steady in the maintenance of order and discipline; intimate with the Indian character,... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 608 pages
...Jefferson gives an idea of his fitness for the task: " Of courage undaunted; possessing a firnmess and perseverance of purpose which nothing but impossibilities could divert from its direction; carefial as a father of those committed to his charge, yet steady in the maintenance of LEWIS, Francis,... | |
 | George Tucker - 1837 - 542 pages
...memoir of his life prepared for the posthumous narrative of the expedition: "Of courage undaunted; possessing a firmness and perseverance of purpose...habituated to the hunting life; guarded, by exact dbseryation of the vegetables and animals of his own country, against losing time in the description... | |
 | Sir William Jackson Hooker - 1841 - 490 pages
...expedition, the President thus expresses himself in his recommendation to Congress. " Of courage undaunted ; possessing a firmness and perseverance of purpose...direction ; careful as a father of those committed to his care, yet steady in the maintenance of order and discipline; intimate with the Indian character, customs,... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - 1841 - 490 pages
...following testimony of Mr Jefferson gives an idea of his fitness for the task : "Of courage undaunted ; possessing a firmness and perseverance of purpose...which nothing but impossibilities could divert from iis direction ; careful as a lather of those committed to his c)iarpp , yet steady in the maintenance... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - 1843 - 352 pages
...Lewis and Clark's Travels. Mr. Jefferson gives Lewis the following character: "Of courage undaunted, possessing a firmness and perseverance of purpose...but impossibilities could divert from its direction; intimate with the Indian character, customs, and principles ; guarded, by exact observation of the... | |
 | 1847 - 346 pages
...Lewis and Clark's Travels. Mr. Jefferson gives Lewis the following character: "Of courage undaunted, possessing a firmness and perseverance of purpose...but impossibilities could divert from its direction; intimate with the Indian character, customs, and principles ; guarded, by exact observation of the... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 628 pages
...direction of the party. I had now had opportunities of knowing him intimately. Of courage undaunted, possessing a firmness and perseverance of purpose...principles. Habituated to the hunting life, guarded by exuct observation of the vegetables and animals of his own country, against losing time in the description... | |
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