 | Egerton Ryerson - American loyalists - 1880 - 536 pages
...December 30th, 1778, ' speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches seems to ha /e got the better of every consideration, and almost of every order of men; * * party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day (in Congress), whilst the... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - British Columbia - 1885 - 860 pages
...1778 that "idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most of them ; that speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches seem to have got the better of every other consideration, and almost every order of men." Let us then learn to omit some portion of our... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 618 pages
...say, that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most of them ; that speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches, seem to have got the better of every other consideration, and almost of every order of men; that party disputes and personal quarrels are... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - British Columbia - 1886 - 852 pages
...1778 that "idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most of them; that speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches seem to have got the better of every other consideration, and almost every order of men." Let us then learn to omit some portion of our... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft, William Nemos, Thomas Savage, Joseph Joshua Peatfield - Mexico - 1886 - 874 pages
...1778 that "idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most of them; that speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches seem to have got the better of every other consideration, and almost every order of men." Let us then learn to omit some portion of our... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...say, that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most of them; that speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches seem to have got the better of every other consideration, and almost of every order of men; that party disputes and personal quarrels are... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - United States - 1889 - 288 pages
...to decry its value, seems to have become a mere business and an epidemical disease.' On December 30, 1778, 'speculation, peculation, and an insatiable...thirst for riches seem to have got the better of every other consideration, and almost of every order of men ; . . . party disputes and personal quarrels... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - Presidents - 1889 - 372 pages
...say, that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most of them ; that speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches seem to have got the better of every other consideration, and almost of every order of men ; that party disputes and personal quarrels are... | |
 | Charles Cooper King - 1894 - 306 pages
...one word say that idleness, 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 of every other consideration, and of almost every order of men ; that party disputes and personal quarrels are... | |
 | John Lord - History - 1894 - 564 pages
...say that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most of them ; that speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches seem to have got the better of every other consideration . . . ; that party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the... | |
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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 know, I should in one word say, that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most of them ; that speculation,... 
