 Columbus was a man of quick sensibility, liable to great excitement, to sudden and strong impressions, and powerful impulses. He was naturally irritable and impetuous, and keenly sensible to injury and injustice ; yet the quickness of his temper was counteracted...  The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus - Pagina 292door Washington Irving - 1829 - 311 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Washington Irving - 1828 - 534 pagina’s
...quick sensibility, liable to great excitement, to sudden and strong impressions, and powerful impulses. He was naturally irritable and impetuous, and keenly...career. Though continually outraged in his dignity, and braved in the exercise of his command ; though foiled in his plans, and. endangered in his person;... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1828 - 606 pagina’s
...sensibility, liable to great excitement, to sud-- den and strong impressions, und powerful impulses. He was naturally irritable and impetuous, and keenly...career. Though continually outraged in his dignity, and braved in the exercise of his command ; though foiled in his plans, and endangered in his parson... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1828 - 538 pagina’s
...impressions and powerful impulses. He was naturally irritable and impetuous, and keenly sensible to injury or injustice; yet the quickness of his temper was counteracted...career. Though continually outraged in his dignity, and braved in the exercise of his command ; though foiled in his plans, and endangered in his person... | |
 | 1828 - 496 pagina’s
...lie w:is naturally irritable and impetuous, find keenly sensible to injury and injustice : yet thu quickness of his temper was counteracted by the benevolence...career. Though continually outraged in his dignity, and braved in the exercise of his command ; tho' foiled in his plans, and endangered in his person... | |
 | Historical account - 1836 - 510 pagina’s
...to have been somewhat passionate ; yet of him, as of the discoverer of America, it may be said, that the quickness of his temper was counteracted by the benevolence and generosity of his heart. The calumny that his disposition was harsh, gloomy, and morose, has been already disproved. " He was beloved... | |
 | ACCOUNT. - 1837 - 392 pagina’s
...to have been somewhat passionate ; yet of him, as of the dicoverer of America, it may be said, that the quickness of his temper was counteracted by the benevolence and generosity of his heart. The calumny that his disposition was harsh, gloomy, and morose, has been already disproved. " He was beloved... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pagina’s
...quick sensibility, liable to great excitement, to sudden and strong impressions, and powerful impulses. He was naturally irritable and impetuous, and keenly...career. Though continually outraged in his dignity, and braved in the exercise of his command; though foiled in his plans, and endangered in his person... | |
 | Conway Robinson, Virginia Historical Society - 1848 - 590 pagina’s
...impressions, and powerful impulses. He was naturally irritable and impetuous, and keenly sensible to injury or injustice; yet the quickness of his temper was counteracted...career. Though continually outraged in his dignity, and braved in the exercise of his command ; though foiled in his plans, and endangered in his person... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 510 pagina’s
...quick sensibility, liable to great excitement, to sudden and strong impressions, and powerful impulses. He was naturally irritable and impetuous, and keenly...career. Though continually outraged in his dignity, and braved in the exercise of his command ; though foiled in his plans, and endangered in his person... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 276 pagina’s
...quick sensibility, liable to great excitement, to sudden and strong impressions, and powerful impulses. He was naturally irritable and impetuous, and keenly...career. Though continually outraged in his dignity, and braved in the exercise of his command ; though foiled in his plans, and endangered in his person... | |
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