 | Merrill Jensen - History - 2004 - 754 pages
...continued to complain. He declared "such a dearth of public spirit, and 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 I may never be witness... | |
 | Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 409 pages
..."Such dearth of public spirit, and such wan* of *. Washington to the President of Congress, Nov. 8, virtue; such stock- jobbing, and fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantage of cue kind or another in this great change of military arrangement, I never saw before,... | |
 | James Nelson - History - 2008 - 320 pages
...want of Virtue," Washington complained to Joseph Reed near the end of November, "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." Washington had at that point enlisted... | |
 | Ralph Volney Harlow - United States - 1925 - 910 pages
...prayed and cursed. "Such a dearth of public spirit, and want of virtue," he wrote, "such stock-jobbing, and fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantages...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... | |
 | Claude Halstead Van Tyne - 1948 - 214 pages
...such despair as to write, 8 Such a dearth of public spirit, and want of virtue, such stock-jobbing and fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantages...one kind or another. . . . I never saw before and I pray God I may never be witness to again Such dirty, mercenary spirit pervades the whole that I would... | |
 | Washington Irving - Presidents - 1856 - 644 pages
...a letter to Reed he disburdened his heart more completely. " Such dearth of public spirit, and such want of virtue ; such stock- jobbing, and fertility in all the low• arts to obtain advantage of one kind or another in this great change of military arrangement, I never saw before,... | |
 | American essays - 1923 - 880 pages
...the corruption around them? '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 and another,' wrote Washington while engaged in the siege of Boston, ' I never saw before, and pray... | |
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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... 
