 | Bunker Hill Monument Association - 1916 - 84 strani
...after a few months in command at Cambridge, he wrote thus: "Such a dearth of public spirit, and such a want of virtue, such stock-jobbing and fertility in...arts to obtain advantages of one kind or another, ... I never saw before, and pray God's mercy that I may never be witness to again. What will be the... | |
 | Leonard Wood - 1916 - 250 strani
...information." And in a private letter a little later, he describes conditions in the following words : " 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... | |
 | Charles Evans Kilbourne - 1917 - 426 strani
...quotations from Washington's letters will put the situation clearly before the seeker after truth: Such a dearth of public spirit and such want of virtue,...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... | |
 | Emory Upton, United States. War Department - 1917 - 546 strani
...the same date, he expressed his feelings still more forcibly: Such a dearth of public spirit and euch want of virtue, such stock-jobbing and fertility in...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... | |
 | William Herbert Hobbs - 1919 - 474 strani
...deserted in a most 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...God's mercy that I may never be witness to again" (1, p. 94). Our grammar school histories have also greatly distorted the attitude taken by the mother... | |
 | 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...God's mercy that I may never be witness to again" (1, p. 94). Our grammar school histories have also greatly distorted the attitude taken by the mother... | |
 | Michael Joseph O'Brien - 1919 - 642 strani
...troops. In a letter to General Joseph Reed, dated Cambridge, November 28, 1775, he complained about their "dearth of public spirit, and such want of virtue,...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
...flattered myself would be the case, I find that we are likely to be deserted in the most critical time. Such a dearth of public spirit and such want of virtue,...God's mercy that I may never be witness to again. Firm in their conviction that the colonists would rush to arms at the first call, prompted only by... | |
 | Joseph Travis Mills - 1920 - 86 strani
...Yorktown. But for the rest their leader long found eulogy difficult : 'Such a dearth of public spirit, such want of virtue, such stock-jobbing and fertility in all the low arts ... I never saw before, and pray God's mercy I. may never see again. . . . Could I have foreseen what... | |
 | American School Citizenship League - 1921 - 196 strani
...pervaded the whole army until, as Washington wrote to a friend : "Such a dearth of public spirit, and want of virtue, such stockjobbing and fertility in...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... | |
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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... 
