 | David McCullough - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 883 pages
...London have given me opportunities of studying him closely. He is vain, irritable and a bad calculator of the force and probable effect of the motives which govern men. This is all the ///which can be said of him. He is as disinterested as the Being which made him : he is profound in... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 2003 - 276 pages
...London, have given me opportunities of studying him closely. He is vain, irritable and a bad calculator of the force and probable effect of the motives which...be said of him. He is as disinterested as the being which made him: he is profound in his views: and accurate in his judgment, except where knowledge of... | |
 | Cormac O'Brien - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 292 pages
...frequency.Those around him took note, including: Thomas Jefferson: "He is vain, irritable, and a bad calculator of the force and probable effect of the motives which govern men" Ben Franklin: "[Adams is] sometimes absolutely mad," Abigail Adams (his devoted wife): "[You have]... | |
 | Stacy Schiff - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 540 pages
...was not dissimilar: "He is vain, irritable, and a bad calculator of the force and probable effects of the motives which govern men. This is all the ill which can possibly be said of him." eight years had elapsed since Lexington and Concord; the news was met with rapture. Congress alone... | |
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He is vain, irritable and a bad calculator of the force and probable effect of the motives which govern men. This is all the ill which can possibly be said of him. 
