But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.

Jackson was not a religious man when he came to Lexington.

Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia.

Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher; but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood.

According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.

No perfectionist has ever met his own benchmarks, and no one so famished for admiration has ever received enough of it.