 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1874 - 520 páginas
...National Assembly and the enthusiastic sympathizer with the French Revolution. Mr. Adams continues : — " He further observed that both French and Spanish ought...was so easy that he had learned it, with the help of ai >• -- Quixote lent him by Mr. Cabot, and a grammar, in the course of a passage to Europe, on which... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1907 - 488 páginas
...must get him down to a plain frock coat, or the boys in the streets will run after him as a sight." " He further observed that both French and Spanish ought...Europe, on which he was but nineteen days at sea. But Mr. Jefferson tells large stories. At table he told us that when he was at Marseilles, he saw there... | |
 | James M. Gabler - 1995 - 344 páginas
...French and Spanish being a requisite in every young man's education, telling John Quincy that Spanish was so easy that "he had learned it, with the help of a Don Quixote . . . and a grammar, in the course of a passage to Europe, on which he was but nineteen days at sea."... | |
 | Joseph Wheelan - 2008 - 344 páginas
...wrote Adams, clearly fascinated by him. At one dinner, the president claimed to have learned Spanish "with the help of a Don Quixote lent him by Mr. Cabot,...Europe, on which he was but nineteen days at sea." At another dinner, with Vice President Aaron Burr and Navy Secretary Robert Smith in company, Jefferson... | |
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He further observed that both French and Spanish ought to be made primary objects of acquisition in all the educations of our young men. As to Spanish, it was so easy that he had learned it, with the help of a Don Quixote lent him by Mr. Cabot, and a... 