 | Martin Ignatius Joseph Griffin - 1909 - 158 pages
...SPIRIT. Washington wrote to Reed on 28th November, 1775 : " Such a dearth of public spirit and such want of virtue, such stock jobbing and fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantages, 18 Washington Laments the Dearth of Public Spirit. of one kind or another, I never ?aw before, and... | |
 | History - 1917 - 388 pages
...his letters he says : " 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 ... I may never be witness... | |
 | Walter Neale - CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA. ARMY. VIRGINIA INFANTRY REGIMENT. - 1910 - 160 pages
...that Washington wrote to Congress and to his subordinates. " Such a dearth of public spirit and such want of virtue, such stock- jobbing and fertility...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... | |
 | Walter Neale - CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA. ARMY. VIRGINIA INFANTRY REGIMENT. - 1910 - 162 pages
...and to his subordinates. " 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 never... | |
 | Allen French - Boston (Mass.) - 1911 - 492 pages
...thirty-five hundred men had enlisted, he wrote: "Such a dearth of public spirit, such stock-jobbing, and such 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 I may never... | |
 | A. Wyatt Tilby - Great Britain - 1911 - 460 pages
...But he loathed the lack of similar patriotism in others with an intense but righteous indignation : ' such a dearth of public spirit, and such a want of virtue,' he wrote in a private letter ; ' such stock-jobbing and fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantages... | |
 | Emory Upton - United States - 1912 - 546 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 that I may never... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1912 - 540 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 that I may never... | |
 | A. Wyatt Tilby - Canada - 1912 - 500 pages
...But he loathed the lack of similar patriotism in others with an intense but righteous indignation : ' such a dearth of public spirit, and such a want of virtue,' he wrote in a private letter ; ' such stock-jobbing and fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantages... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - United States - 1915 - 436 pages
...confidential letters were couched in scathing terms. " Such a dearth of public spirit," he wrote, " and such want of virtue; such stock- jobbing, and fertility...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... | |
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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... 
