 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 - Page 292by Washington Irving - 1829 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - America - 1828 - 534 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Discoveries in geography - 1836 - 510 pages
...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. - Discoveries in geography - 1837 - 392 pages
...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 pages
...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 - America - 1848 - 590 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Readers - 1849 - 276 pages
...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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