 | James Truslow Adams - 1923 - 516 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... | |
 | 1925 - 690 strani
...pay greater adoration to money than they do. ... Such a dearth of public spirit, and want of virtue, such stock-jobbing 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." Perhaps we can learn... | |
 | Rupert Hughes - 1927 - 746 strani
...army, if they are not more attentive and diligent. Such a dearth of public spirit, and want of virtue, such stock-jobbing, and fertility in all the low arts...change of military arrangement, I never saw before, and pray God I may never be witness to again. . . . "Pray impress this upon the members, and the necessity... | |
 | Claude Halstead Van Tyne - 1927 - 212 strani
...Washington could be reduced to such despair as to write, Such a dearth of public spirit, and want of virtue, such stock-jobbing and fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantages of one kind or another I never saw before and I pray God I may never be witness to again Such dirty, mercenary spirit pervades... | |
 | 1928 - 860 strani
...conld be reduced to such despair as to write, "Such a dearth of public spirit, and want of virtue, such stock-jobbing and fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantages of one kind or another . . I never saw before and I pray God I may never be witness to again Such dirty, mercenary spirit... | |
 | George Washington - 1931 - 684 strani
...army, if they are not more attentive and diligent. Such a dearth of public spirit, and want of virtue, such stock-jobbing, and fertility in all the low arts...change of military arrangement, I never saw before, and pray God I may never be witness to again. What will be the ultimate end of these manoeuvres is... | |
 | 1927 - 414 strani
...wrote in 1775: Such a dearth of public spirit and such want of virtue, such stockjobbing and futility in all the low arts to obtain advantages of one kind or another in this great change of military management, I never saw before, and pray God's mercy that I may never be witness to again, . . . Such... | |
 | Erna Risch - 1981 - 492 strani
...unpatriotic attitudes he encountered discouraged him. Such a dearth of public spirit, and want of virtue, and stock-jobbing, 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 witness to again. . . . Could I have foreseen what I... | |
 | Alan Axelrod - 2000 - 426 strani
...it with equal facility .... Voices of Liberty "Such a dearth of public spirit, and want of virtue, such stock-jobbing, 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 witness to again .... Could I have foreseen what... | |
 | Samuel B. Griffith - 2002 - 780 strani
...could take hold, sectional bickering would persist. Washington wrote he had never before witnessed such "fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantages of one kind or another." But he was endowed with seemingly infinite patience; only in private letters did he express his frustrations... | |
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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 great change of military arrangement, I never saw before, and pray God's mercy that I may... 
