 If I were to be called upon to draw a picture of the times and of men, from what I have seen, heard, and in part know, I should in one word say, that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most of them; that speculation,...  A History of the British Army - Page 284by Sir John William Fortescue - 1902Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Eliot - United States - 1873 - 524 pages
...say that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold upon most of them ; that speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches seem to have got the better of every other consideration, and almost of every order of men ; that party disputes and personal quarrels... | |
 | John Andrew Doyle - America - 1875 - 472 pages
...drew an equally lamentable picture of the state of affairs at Philadelphia. Writing thence he says, " Speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for "riches, seem to have got the better of every other consideration, and of almost every order of men ; party disputes and personal quarrels... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - United States - 1876 - 618 pages
...decry its value, seems to have become a mere business and an epidemical disease.' On December 30, 1778, 'speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches seem to have got the better of every other consideration, and almost of every order of men; . . . party disputes and personal quarrels... | |
 | François Guizot - Great Britain - 1876 - 568 pages
...say that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most of them ; that speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches, seem to have got the better of every other consideration, and almost of every order of men; that party disputes and personal quarrels... | |
 | John Andrew Doyle - United States - 1876 - 440 pages
...dre\* an equally lamentable picture of the state of affairs at Philadelphia. Writing thence he says, " Speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches, seem to have got the better of every other consideration, and of almost every order of men ; party disputes and personal quarrels... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - United States - 1876 - 542 pages
...say that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold upon most of them ; that speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches seem to have got the better of every other consideration, and almost of every order of men ; that party disputes and personal quarrels... | |
 | Missions - 1876 - 864 pages
...to develop itself. Washington, writing from Philadelphia, nearly a hundred years ago, says : — " Speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches, seem to have got the better of every other consideration, and of almost every order of man ; party disputes and personal quarrels... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - United States - 1876 - 538 pages
...say that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold upon most of them ; that speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches seem to have got the better of every other consideration, and almost of every order of men ; that party disputes and personal quarrels... | |
 | 1880 - 700 pages
...hundred and sixty dishes." General Washington, speaking of the men of the times, says: ''Idleness, speculation, peculation and an insatiable thirst for riches, seem to have got the best of every other consideration " Edward Shippen write-" to a relative : " I shall find myself under... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - British Columbia - 1885 - 860 pages
...1778 that "idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most of them ; that speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches seem to have got the better of every other consideration, and almost every order of men." Let us then learn to omit some portion of... | |
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