 | John Pinkerton - 1812 - 914 páginas
...were poor gentlemen, tradefmen, ferving-men, libertines, and fuch like, ten, times more fit to fpoil a commonwealth, than either begin one, or but help to maintain, one : for when neither the fear of God, nor the law, nor ihame, nor difpleafure of their friends, could... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1829 - 558 páginas
...promising or desirable description. Smith describes them as " poor gentlemen, tradesmen, serving-men, libertines, and such like, ten times more fit to spoil a commonwealth than either to begin or maintain one." As they went out usually with extravagant hopes of sudden * Smith, ap. Pinkerton,... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1834 - 440 páginas
...after enumerating a few useful mechanics, " All the rest were poor gentlemen, tradesmen, serving-men, libertines, and such like, ten times more fit to spoil...than either begin one, or but help to maintain one." — Smith's Virginia, (Richmond Edition,) Vol. I. p. 241. visions of wealth and aggrandizement. Nothing... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1834 - 454 páginas
...after enumerating a few useful mechanics, " All the rest were poor gentlemen, tradesmen, serving-men, libertines, and such like, ten times more fit to spoil...than either begin one, or but help to maintain one." — Smith's Virginia, (Richmond Edition,) Vol. I. p. 241. visions of wealth and aggrandizement. Nothing... | |
 | Joseph Martin, William Henry Brockenbrough - 1835 - 644 páginas
...and composed with a few exceptions of "gentlemen, tradesmen, servingmen, libertines, and such-like, ten times more fit to spoil a commonwealth, than either begin one, or but help to maintain one," now gave free rein to all their evil dispositions. Each one sought only to gratify his passions or... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1839 - 394 páginas
...after enumerating a few useful mechanics, " All the rest were poor gentlemen, tradesmen, serving-men, libertines, and such like, ten times more fit to spoil...than either begin one, or but help to maintain one." — Smith's Virginia, (Richmond Edition,) Vol. I. p. 241. neglecting duties of the most important nature,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 852 páginas
...Smith describes them as " poor gentlemen, DISSOLUTION OF THE LONDON COMPANY. 349 tradesmen, servingmen, libertines, and such like ; ten times more fit to spoil a commonwealth than either to begin or maintain one." As they went out from England usually with extravagant hopes of sudden and... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1845 - 616 páginas
...and composed with a few exceptions of " gentlemen, tradesmen, serving-men, libertines, and such-like, ten times more fit to spoil a commonwealth, than either begin one, or but help to maintain one," now gave free rein to all their evil dispositions. Each one sought only to gratify his passions or... | |
 | 1847 - 394 páginas
...after enumerating a few useful mechanics, " All the rest were poor gentlemen, tradesmen, serving-men, libertines, and such like, ten times more fit to spoil...than either begin one, or but help to maintain one." — Smith's Virginia, {Richmond Edition,) Vol. I. p. 241. neglecting duties of the most important nature,... | |
 | George Warburton - 1849 - 478 páginas
...exposed to in Virginia, and he was obliged to return to England in little more than a year. serving-men, libertines, and such like, ten times more fit to spoil a commonwealth than either to begin or maintain one." These men were tempted into the undertaking by hopes of sudden wealth, and... | |
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All the rest were poor gentlemen, tradesmen, serving-men, libertines, and such like, ten times more fit to spoil a commonwealth, than either begin one, or but help to maintain one. 
