 He understood the relations of things, and hence his deductions were rarely wrong from any given state of facts. So he applied the principles of the law to the transactions of men with great clearness and precision. He was a close reasoner. He reasoned...  Miscellanies - Стр. 12авторы: John Dean Caton - 1879 - Страниц: 360Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1866 - Страниц: 626
...appreciated the elementary principles of the law, and the reasons why they had become established us such. He remembered well what he read, because he...valuable contribution to American literature. Those who suppose Mr. Lincoln was destitute of imagination or fancy know but little of his mental endowments.... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - Страниц: 556
...precision. He was a close reasoner. He reasoned by analogy, and enforced his views by apt illustration. His mode of speaking was generally of a plain and...eloquent passages in our language, which, if collected, would form a valuable contribution to American literature. The most punctilious honor ever marked his... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - Страниц: 572
...enforced his views by apt illustration. His mode of speaking was generally of a plain and imirupassioned character, and yet, he was the author of some of the...eloquent passages in our language, which, if collected, would form a valuable contribution to American literature. The most punctilious honor ever marked his... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1867 - Страниц: 524
...refuse me ; but, if Mr. Lincoln is at home, he will always take my case." Judge Caton said of him, " His mode of speaking was generally of a plain and...eloquent passages in our language, which, if collected, would form a valuable contribution to American literature." Judge Breeze, speaking of him after his... | |
 | George Sumner Weaver - 1883 - Страниц: 612
...transactions of men with great clearness and precision. He was a close reasoner. He reasoned by analogy and enforced his views by apt illustrations. His mode...eloquent passages in our language, which, if collected, would form a valuable contribution to American literature. The most punctilious honor ever marked his... | |
 | Henry Clay Whitney - 1892 - Страниц: 772
...simple-minded man would very soon wake up on his back, in a ditch." Another eminent jurist thus describes him : "Without the advantage of that mental culture which...destitute of imagination or fancy, know but little of his fancy or endowments. In truth, his mind overflowed with pleasing imagery. His great reputation for... | |
 | Robert Dickinson Sheppard - 1899 - Страниц: 136
...with Mr. Lincoln, says of him: "He was a close reasoner, reasoning by analogy and usually enforcing his views by apt illustrations. His mode of speaking...generally of a plain and unimpassioned character, yet abounding with eloquence, imagination and fancy. His great reputation for integrity was well deserved.... | |
 | Frederick Trevor Hill - 1906 - Страниц: 364
...wrong from any given state of facts. So he applied the principles of the law to the transactions of man with great clearness and precision. He was a close...Mr. Lincoln was destitute of imagination or fancy knew but little of his mental endowments. In truth his mind overflowed with pleasing imagery. His great... | |
 | Frederick Trevor Hill - 1912 - Страниц: 368
...enforced his views by apt illustrations. His mode of speaking was generally of a plain and unimpassioncd character, and yet he was the author of some of the...Mr. Lincoln was destitute of imagination or fancy knew but little of his mental endowments. In truth his mind overflowed with pleasing imagery. His great... | |
 | Henry Bascom Rankin - 1924 - Страниц: 396
...endowed him with a philosophical mind, and he learned and appreciated the elementary principles of 300 the law, and the reasons why they had become established...valuable contribution to American literature. Those who suppose Mr. Lincoln was destitute of imagination or fancy, know little of his mental endowments. In... | |
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