 | Edward Charles M'Guire - 1836 - 428 pages
...condition, than they have been since the commencement of the war. ******** " If I were to be called upon to draw a picture of the times, and of men, from what...hold of most of them ; that speculation, peculation, arid an insatiable thirst for riches, seem to have got the better of every other consideration, and... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1836 - 574 pages
...Philadelphia, and he writes from thence as follows : — " If I were to be called upon to draw a pic" ture of the times and of men from what I have " seen, heard,...in one " word say, that idleness, dissipation, and extrava" gance seem to have laid fast hold of them ; — " that speculation, peculation, and an insatiable... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 426 pages
...with them at Philadelphia, and he writes from thence as follows : — " If I were to be called upon to draw a picture " of the times and of men from what..." and in part know, I should in one word say, that idle" ness, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid " fast hold of them ; — that speculation,... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 410 pages
...with them at Philadelphia, and he writes from thence as follows : — " If I were to be called upon to draw a picture "** of the times and of men from what I have seen, heard, *f and in part know, I should in one word say, that idle" ness, dissipation, and extravagance seem... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1854 - 424 pages
...measures with them at Philadelphia, and he writes from thence as follows: — "If I were to be called upon to draw a picture of the times "and of men from what...dissipation, and "extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of them; — that "speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches "seem to have got the... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1858 - 420 pages
...with them at Philadelphia, and he writes from thence as follows : — " If I were to be called upon to draw a picture " of the times and of men from what..." and in part know, I should in one word say, that idle" ness, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid " fast hold of them ; — that speculation,... | |
 | William Nathaniel Massey - 1858 - 500 pages
...the most formidable difficulties which since the commencement of the war 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 known, I should in one word say that idleness, dissipation and extravagance seem to have laid fast... | |
 | John Frederick Smith - 1861 - 644 pages
...Washington, of this model congress, and of American patriots generally : — " If I were to be called upon to draw a picture of the times and of men, from what...dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of them ; that speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches seem to have got the better... | |
 | 1862 - 970 pages
...the next ytir, be says, " If I was called on to draw a picture of the times and of men, from wliat I have seen, heard, and in part know, I should in...extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most of ilicm; that speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches, seem to Üà;å gotten the... | |
 | Henry Barton Dawson - 1863 - 234 pages
...not soon applied, and in which theirs also must ultimately be involved. "If I were to be called npon to draw a picture of the times and of men, from what I have peon, heard, and in part know, I should in word say, that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem... | |
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If I was 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,... 
