 | William Herbert Hobbs - Europe - 1919 - 474 pages
...be the case, I find we are likely to be deserted in a most critical time." A little later he wrote : "Such a dearth of public spirit and such a want of...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... | |
 | Michael Joseph O'Brien - History - 1919 - 642 pages
...1775, he complained about their "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, that I never before saw, and pray God's mercy that I may never be witness to again." "Such a mercenary... | |
 | William Herbert Hobbs - Europe - 1919 - 478 pages
...be the case, I find we are likely to be deserted in a most critical time." A little later he wrote : "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... | |
 | Enoch Herbert Crowder - Draft - 1920 - 392 pages
...the most critical time. 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... | |
 | Leonard Wood - United States - 1921 - 266 pages
...little later, he describes conditions in the following words : " 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... | |
 | American School Citizenship League - United States - 1921 - 196 pages
...Washington wrote to a friend : "Such a dearth of public spirit, and want of virtue, such stockjobbing and fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantages...one 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... | |
 | James Truslow Adams - Literary Criticism - 1923 - 520 pages
...drew pay from the government. "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 and another ... I never saw before, and pray God I may never be witness to again" wrote the general... | |
 | James Truslow Adams - New England - 1923 - 516 pages
...drew pay from the government. "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 and another ... I never saw before, and pray God I may never be witness to again" wrote the general... | |
 | Harold Underwood Faulkner - United States - 1924 - 752 pages
...am ashamed of the age I live in." * "Such a dearth of public spirit," said Washington in 1775, "and want of virtue, such stock- jobbing, and fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantage of one kind or another ... I never saw before, and I pray God I may never be a witness to... | |
 | Ralph Volney Harlow - United States - 1925 - 910 pages
...wonder that Washington alternately "Such a dearth of public spirit, and want of 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... | |
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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... 
