 | William Estabrook Chancellor - Executive power - 1912 - 616 pages
...Harrison, — "Idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most of them; speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches seem to have got the better of every other consideration." This is not the language of a man weak in thought or in expression and strong... | |
 | Emory Upton - United States - 1912 - 546 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 every order of men; that party disputes and personal quarrels are the... | |
 | Roland Greene Usher - History - 1914 - 440 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 every order of men. "s " The spirit of venality, ' ' wrote John Adams,... | |
 | World history - 1914 - 594 pages
...say that idleness, dissipation and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold upon 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 McFarland Kennedy - United States - 1914 - 430 pages
...idle influence, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold upon 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... | |
 | United States - 1916 - 544 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 every order of men; that party disputes and personal quarrels are the... | |
 | Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1916 - 576 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... | |
 | Thomas Edward Watson - United States - 1916 - 598 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 McClellan Stevens - 1917 - 222 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 every order of men; that party disputes and personal quarrels are the... | |
 | Augustus White Long - American prose literature - 1917 - 458 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... | |
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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,... 
