 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
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 618 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... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft, William Nemos, Thomas Savage, Joseph Joshua Peatfield - Mexico - 1886 - 874 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... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - British Columbia - 1886 - 852 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... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 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 Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - United States - 1889 - 288 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... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - Presidents - 1889 - 372 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... | |
 | Charles Cooper King - 1894 - 306 pages
...one word say that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of them; that 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 ; that party disputes and personal quarrels... | |
 | John Lord - History - 1894 - 564 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 . . . ; that party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - United States - 1898 - 546 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... | |
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