 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1905 - 572 pages
...eloquence, Mr. Rutledge, of South Carolina, is by far the greatest orator ; but if you speak of solid information and sound judgment, Colonel Washington is unquestionably the greatest man on that floor." How thoroughly and zealously he participated in the feelings which actuated Congress in... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1908 - 480 pages
...to have been much distinguished. Yet Mr. Wirt relates that Patrick Henry said, " In respect to solid information and sound judgment, Colonel Washington is unquestionably the greatest man on that floor." u He was a member of the second Congress, which met 10th May, 1775. This was after the... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1908 - 476 pages
...to have been much distinguished. Yet Mr. Wirt relates that Patrick Henry said, " In respect to solid information and sound judgment, Colonel Washington is unquestionably the greatest man on that floor." n He was a member of the second Congress, which met 10th May, 1775. This was after the... | |
 | Charles Forster Smith - Thompson, Maurice, 1844-1901 - 1909 - 496 pages
...commander of the Revolutionary forces, and yet Patrick Henry had said of him then: "If you speak of solid information and sound judgment, Colonel Washington is unquestionably the greatest man on the floor." Now, he presided over the Constitutional Convention, and from May 25 to September 17 spoke but once... | |
 | Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler, Franklin Lafayette Riley, James Curtis Ballagh, John Bell Henneman, Edwin Mims, Thomas Edward Watson, Samuel Chiles Mitchell, Joseph Walker McSpadden - American literature - 1909 - 662 pages
...eloquence, Mr. Rutledge of South Carolina is by far the greatest orator; but if you speak of solid information and sound judgment, Colonel Washington is unquestionably the greatest man on that floor." In June, 1775, at the suggestion of John Adams of Massachusetts, he was unanimously elected... | |
 | Jacob Harris Patton, John Lord - United States - 1910 - 336 pages
...eloquence, Mr. Rutledge, of South Carolina, is, by far, the greatest orator; but if you speak of solid information and sound judgment, Colonel Washington is unquestionably the greatest man on that floor." John Adams took occasion to point out what, under the present circumstances, should be... | |
 | Allen French - Boston (Mass.) - 1911 - 492 pages
...the debates, he made himself felt. Patrick Henry said of him at this time : " If you speak of solid information and sound judgment, Colonel Washington is unquestionably the greatest man on the floor." 1 To make the Congress "adopt" the army at Boston, and to have Washington appointed generalissimo,... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - 1911 - 434 pages
...the same men individually, Patrick Henry, who was one of the delegates, said, " if you speak of solid information and sound judgment, Colonel Washington is unquestionably the greatest man on that floor. " George Washington. John Habberton, p. 75. Washington's Commission as Commander-in-chief... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - Genius - 1911 - 336 pages
...eloquence, Mr. Rutledge, of South Carolina, is by far the greatest orator; but if you speak of solid information and sound judgment, Colonel Washington is unquestionably the greatest man on that floor.'" ' Having that weight in the Congress, we may be sure that his counsels are represented... | |
 | Michael Hendrick Fitch - Frontier and pioneer life - 1914 - 322 pages
...spoke no language but his own, yet Patrick Henry said of him, in the congress of 1774, that "in solid information and sound judgment, Colonel Washington is unquestionably the greatest man on the floor." History recites his public life, but I like best to dwell upon his private character, because his splendid... | |
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If you speak of eloquence, Mr. Rutledge, of South Carolina, is by far the greatest orator; but if you speak of solid information and sound judgment, Colonel Washington is unquestionably the greatest man on that floor. 
