 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,...  Itinerary of General Washington from June 15, 1775, to December 23, 1783 - Página 148editado por - 1892 - 334 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1889 - 364 páginas
...Harrison : "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, digsipation, and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most of them ; that speculation, peculation,... | |
 | George Washington - 1890 - 540 páginas
...irretrievable (if a remedy is not soon applied) ruin in which theirs also must ultimately be involved. If I was to be called upon to draw a picture of the...extravagance seems to have laid fast hold of most of them.—That speculation—peculation—and an insatiable thirst for rishes seems to have got the better... | |
 | 1923 - 574 páginas
...of lack of unity among the colonies, so that Washington wrote to a friend after a visit to Congress at Philadelphia : — "If I was to be called upon...should in one word say that idleness, dissipation and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most of them. That speculation — peculation— and... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - 1893 - 366 páginas
...persevere in a contest for independence." From Philadelphia, 30th December, 1778, he writes : " If I were 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... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, Mrs. Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz - 1894 - 592 páginas
...if a remedy is not soon applied, ard in which theirs also must ultimately be involved. • 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... | |
 | Charles Cooper King - 1894 - 306 páginas
...importance. " If," he writes, after one of his visits to Philadelphia in the winter of 1788, " I were 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... | |
 | John Lord - 1894 - 564 páginas
...deplored by no one more bitterly than by Washington himself. " If I were called upon," he writes, " 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Bryant Johnston - 1895 - 270 páginas
...surpasses the power of any language I possess." 1778 General Washington wrote to Benjamin Harrison: "If I was to be called upon to draw a picture of the...Men, from what I have seen and heard, and in part known, I should in one word say that idleness, dissipation & extravagance seems to have laid hold of... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1898 - 546 páginas
...very emphatic passage is from a letter of Washington from Philadelphia, Dec. 30, 1778 : ' If I were 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... | |
 | Frank Bergen - 1898 - 60 páginas
...we could of it." And in a letter written at Philadelphia December soth, 1778, he says : "If I were 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... | |
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