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" rough eloquence, also, that was very effective with his followers. 'His style,' says one who knew him personally, 'was a singular compound of local barbarisms, scriptural phrases and oriental wildness ; and although "
Proceedings of the Vermont Historical Society - Page 97
by Vermont Historical Society - 1872
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Memoirs of a Life, Chiefly Passed in Pennsylvania: Within the Last Sixty Years

Alexander Graydon - 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...
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Memoirs of His Own Time: With Reminiscences of the Men and Events of the ...

Alexander Graydon - 1846 - 526 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...
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Memoirs of His Own Time: With Reminiscences of the Men and Events of the ...

Alexander Graydon - 1846 - 530 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...
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Memoirs of his own time, by A. Graydon, ed. by J.S. Littell

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 ungrammalical, it was highly animated and forcible. In the following...
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Life of George Washington, Volume 1

Washington Irving - 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...
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Life of George Washington, Volume 1

Washington Irving - 1857 - 544 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...
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Life of George Washington, Volume 1

Washington Irving - 1857 - 608 pages
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Works, Volume 34

Washington Irving - 1857 - 486 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 uiigrammatical, was highly animated and forcible." Washington, in one...
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Life of George Washington, Volume 1

Washington Irving - 1855 - 554 pages
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The Works of Washington Irving ...

Washington Irving - 1860 - 482 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 ungraminatical, was highly animated and forcible." Washington, in one...
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