 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
 | Arthur Johnston - 1908 - 318 páginas
...Washington declared : " If I were called upon to draw a picture of the times and 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, peculation and an... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell, Clark Edmund Persinger - 1909 - 512 páginas
...the credit of our currency, restrain extortion, and punish forestallers." Dec. 30, 1778. " 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... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell, Clark Edmund Persinger - 1909 - 544 páginas
...1778. " 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, peculation, and an... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1911 - 328 páginas
...yourself in endeavoring to rescue your country by ... sending your ablest and best men to Congress. ... If I was to be called upon to draw a picture of the...should in one word say that idleness, dissipation and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most of them; that speculation, peculation, and an... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - 1911 - 478 páginas
...while the common interests of America are moldering and sinking into irretrievable ruin. 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... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - 1911 - 848 páginas
...ruin. . . 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 the most of them ; that speculation, peculation, and... | |
 | Emory Upton - 1912 - 546 páginas
...toward the close of the year is thus given by Washington in a letter to Benjamin 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, dissipation, and extravagance seem... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1912 - 540 páginas
...toward the close of the year is thus given by Washington in a letter to Benjamin 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, dissipation, and extravagance seem... | |
 | Josiah Strong - 1913 - 312 páginas
...of Man." pp. 71, 72. Washington in 1778 to his friend Benjamin Harrison is interesting. He says : " If I was to be called upon to draw a picture of the...of men, from what I have seen and heard and in part known, I should in one word say that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid hold... | |
 | John McFarland Kennedy - 1914 - 430 páginas
...great depression. " The common interests of America are sinking into irretrievable ruin. 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 idle influence, dissipation, and extravagance... | |
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