 | Orin Grant Libby - Constitutional history - 1897 - 634 pages
...this time about the force under his command. He writes to Congress in the latter part of 1775 that " Such a dearth of public spirit and such a want of virtue .... I never saw before ; . . . . such a mercenary spirit pervades the whole [force] that I should... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - United States - 1898 - 546 pages
...letter of Nov. 28, 1775. ' Such a dearth of public spirit, and such want of virtue, such stockjobbing 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 never... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - Estados Unidos - Historia - Revolucion, 1775-1783 - 1898 - 468 pages
...terms. "Such a dearth of public spirit," he wrote, " 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 I pray God's mercy that I may... | |
 | Scotland - 1899 - 1284 pages
...when the " patriots " were engaged in actual conflict for their " liberty," Washington wrote : — " Such a dearth of public spirit and such a want of virtue; such stockjobbing and fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantages of one kind or another in this... | |
 | Worthington Chauncey Ford - Presidents - 1900 - 378 pages
...chagrin and real displeasure. " Such a dearth of public spirit and 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 I may never be witness... | |
 | Louis Clinton Hatch - History - 1903 - 248 pages
...despair. He wrote to a friend : " Such a dearth of public spirit, and 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 I may never be witness... | |
 | Emory Upton - United States - 1904 - 538 pages
...feelings still more forcibly: 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 tbin great change of military arrangement I never saw before, and pray God's mercy that I may never... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1904 - 534 pages
...feelings still more forcibly: 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 tbat I may never... | |
 | Claude Halstead Van Tyne - United States - 1905 - 420 pages
...British Army, III., 164. ' Washington, Writings (Ford's ed.), III., 146. a dearth of public spirit, and want of virtue, such stock - jobbing, and fertility...kind or another, ... I never saw before, and pray God I may never be a witness to again. . . . Such a dirty, mercenary spirit pervades the whole that... | |
 | Arthur Johnston - American loyalists - 1908 - 318 pages
...consented to guide its destinies. During the winter of the same year, to a correspondent he complained : " 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 of one kind or another, in this... | |
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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... 
