| Charles McClellan Stevens - 1917 - 222 strani
...November 28, 1775: "Such a dearth of public spirit, and such a want of virtue, such stock jobbing and such fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantages...change of military arrangement I never saw before, and pray G.od's mercy that I may never be witness to again. What will be the end of these manceuvers... | |
| Emory Upton, United States. War Department - 1917 - 546 strani
...expressed his feelings still more forcibly: Such a dearth of public spirit and euch want of virtue, such stock-jobbing and fertility in all the low arts...another in this great change of military arrangement 1 never saw before, and pray God's mercy that I may never be witness to again. What will be the end... | |
| Charles Evans Kilbourne - 1917 - 426 strani
...situation clearly before the seeker after truth: Such a dearth of public spirit and such want of virtue, such stock-jobbing and fertility in all the low arts...to obtain advantages of one kind or another in this '/reat change of military arrangement, I never saw before, and pray God's mercy that I may never be... | |
| William Herbert Hobbs - 1919 - 478 strani
...critical time." A little later he wrote : "Such a dearth of public spirit and such a want of virtue, such stock-jobbing and fertility in all the low arts...change of military arrangement, I never saw before, and pray God's mercy that I may never be witness to again" (1, p. 94). Our grammar school histories... | |
| William Herbert Hobbs - 1919 - 474 strani
...little later he wrote : "Such a dearth of public spirit and such a want of virtue, such stock- jobbing and fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantages...change of military arrangement, I never saw before, and pray God's mercy that I may never be witness to again" (1, p. 94). Our grammar school histories... | |
| Michael Joseph O'Brien - 1919 - 646 strani
...Cambridge, November 28, 1775, he complained about their "dearth of public spirit, and such want of virtue, such stockjobbing and fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantages of one kind or another, that I never before saw, and pray God's mercy that I may never be witness to again." "Such a mercenary... | |
| Enoch Herbert Crowder - 1920 - 392 strani
...likely to be deserted in the most critical time. Such a dearth of public spirit and such want of virtue, such stock-jobbing and fertility in all the low arts...change of military arrangement, I never saw before, and pray God's mercy that I may never be witness to again. Firm in their conviction that the colonists... | |
| Leonard Wood - 1921 - 272 strani
...the following words : " Such a dearth of public spirit arid such want of virtue, such stock- jobbing and fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantages...change of military arrangement I never saw before, and pray God's mercy that I may never be witness to again. What will be the end of these maneuvers... | |
| American School Citizenship League - 1921 - 196 strani
...army until, as Washington wrote to a friend : "Such a dearth of public spirit, and want of virtue, such stockjobbing and fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantages of one kind or another ... I never saw before, and pray God I may never be a witness to again. . . . Such a dirty, mercenary... | |
| James Truslow Adams - 1923 - 520 strani
...farms while both drew pay from the government. "Such a dearth of public spirit, and want of virtue, such stockjobbing and fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantages of one kind and another ... I never saw before, and pray God I may never be witness to again" wrote the general... | |
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