 | Thomas Jefferson, Joseph Carrington Cabell - 1856 - 576 pages
...reputation, but in law, if Dr. Cooper accepts our propositions. And why should- we wish otherwise ? Cooper is acknowledged by every enlightened man who...to be the greatest man in America, in the powers of mind, and in acquired information ; and that, without a single exception. I understand, indeed, that... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Joseph Carrington Cabell - 1856 - 568 pages
...reputation, but in law, if Dr.. Cooper accepts our propositions. And why should we wish otherwise ? Cooper is acknowledged by every enlightened man who...to be the greatest man in America, in the powers of mind, and in acquired information ; and that, without a single exception. I understand, indeed, that... | |
 | Herbert Baxter Adams - 1888 - 732 pages
...year. The University agreed to take his apparatus at cost, and 2,500 specimens from his mineralogical collection. Dr. Cooper was in position to dictate...to have been obnoxious to the prevailing religious sentimeut of England, and partly for that reason to have sought refuge in America. Prejudice and suspicion... | |
 | 1888 - 1124 pages
...North American Review, Vol. XIV, pp. 317, 318. "Cooper is acknowledged by every enlightened man wbo knows him to be the greatest man in America in the...information, and that without a single exception."1 He had very pronounced and advanced views on education, which be urged in his vigorous way upon the... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1888 - 814 pages
...Thomas Jefferson said of him, "Cooper is acknowledged by every enlightened man who knows Lira to be tbe greatest man in America in the powers of his mind...information, and that without a single exception."1 lie had very pronounced and advanced views on education, which he urged in his vigorous way upon the... | |
 | Colyer Meriwether - 1889 - 492 pages
...lectured on chemistry. Thomas Jefferson said of him, 1 North American Review, Vol. XIV, pp. 317, 318. " Cooper is acknowledged by every enlightened man who...information, and that without a single exception."1 He had very pronounced and advanced views on education, which he urged in his vigorous way upon the... | |
 | John Witherspoon Du Bose - 1892 - 826 pages
...Dr. Thomas Cooper, President of the South Carolina College, of whom Jefferson wrote to Cabell : " He is acknowledged by every enlightened man who knows...in acquired information, and that without a single exception." It was Dr. Cooper who was indicted under the famous Sedition law, convicted of writing... | |
 | John Witherspoon Du Bose - 1892 - 820 pages
...whom Jefferson wrote to Cabell : " He is acknowledged by every enlightened man who knows him, to he the greatest man in America, in the powers of his...in acquired information, and that without a single exception." It was Dr. Cooper who was indicted under the famous Sedition law, convicted of writing... | |
 | David Franklin Houston - 1896 - 194 pages
...Thomas the South Carolina College, Dr. Thomas Cooper, of ,oope1. whom Jefferson wrote to Cabell: " He is acknowledged, by every enlightened man who knows...in acquired information, and that without a single exception." Perhaps we get a more correct estimate of the same man from President John Quincy Adams... | |
 | Herbert Baxter Adams - 1902 - 326 pages
...necessary. At his appointment he enthusiastically said "Cooper is acknowledged by every enlightened man I who knows him to be the greatest man in America in...in acquired information, and that without a single exception." And now he writes, " I do sincerely lament * * * the irreparable loss of this professor... | |
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Cooper is acknowledged by every enlightened man who knows him, to be the greatest man in America, in the powers of mind, and in acquired information ; and that, without a single exception. 
