 | Dave Richard Palmer - History - 2006 - 434 pages
...Thinking of his brave, loyal, suffering men, the commanding general railed at the unfairness of it all: "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." Washington did not enjoy his stay in Philadelphia—... | |
 | Mary Agnes Best - Political scientists - 1927 - 496 pages
...word that idle influence, dissipation and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold upon 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 day, whilst... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1848 - 578 pages
...one word say, that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most ; 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 ; and that party disputes and personal quarrels... | |
 | Edwin Wiley - United States - 1915 - 324 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,... 
