 | Merrill Jensen - 2004 - 754 strani
...Washington continued to complain. He declared "such a dearth of public spirit, and want of virtue, such stockjobbing, 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." By the end of November he had managed to enlist only... | |
 | Washington Irving - 2005 - 409 strani
...Congress, Nov. 8, virtue; such stock- jobbing, and fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantage of cue kind or another in this great change of military arrangement, I never saw before, and I pray God's mercy that I may never be witness to again. What will be the end of these maneuvers... | |
 | Ralph Volney Harlow - 1925 - 910 strani
...Washington alternately prayed and cursed. "Such a dearth of public spirit, and want of virtue," he wrote, "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 a witness to again. . . . Such a dirty, mercenary... | |
 | Claude Halstead Van Tyne - 1948 - 214 strani
...could be reduced to such despair as to write, 8 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... | |
 | 1923 - 880 strani
...those who had to fight the corruption around them? '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,' wrote Washington while engaged in the siege of Boston, ' I never saw before, and pray... | |
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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... 
