That be a whole thought, though so young that he is not yet strong to use his little wings.

Nay, like the 'Ugly Duck' of my friend Hans Andersen, he be no duck thought at all, but a big swan thought that sail nobly on big wings, when the time come for him to try them.

See I read here what Jonathan have written.
"That other of his race who, in a later age, again and again, brought his forces over The Great River into Turkey Land, who when he was beaten back, came again, and again, and again, though he had to come alone from the bloody field where his troops were being slaughtered, since he knew that he alone could ultimately triumph.
"What does this tell us?
Not much?
No! The Count's child thought see nothing, therefore he speak so free.

Your man thought see nothing.

My man thought see nothing, till just now.