 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,...  Itinerary of General Washington from June 15, 1775, to December 23, 1783 - Página 148editado por - 1892 - 334 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Henry Barton Dawson - 1863 - 234 páginas
...not soon applied, and in which theirs also must ultimately be involved. "If I were to be called npon to draw a picture of the times and of men, from what I have peon, heard, and in part know, I should in word say, that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 662 páginas
...commander-in-chief, Washington, of this model congress, and of American patriots generally : — " 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... | |
 | Gilbert Haven - 1869 - 714 páginas
...Harrison, the father of the future president, dated December 30, 1778, " from what I have heard and seen, 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, peculation, and an... | |
 | Gilbert Haven - 1869 - 680 páginas
...Harrison, the father of the future president, dated December 30, 1778, " from what I have heard and seen, 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, peculation, and an... | |
 | George Washington Greene - 1871 - 538 páginas
...distressed, ruinous, and deplorable condition than they have been since the commencement of the war 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... | |
 | George Washington Greene - 1871 - 538 páginas
...distressed, ruinous, and deplorable condition than they have been since the commencement of the war 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... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1873 - 524 páginas
...despaired at length despairing ? There was reason to do so. " If I were to be called upon," he said, " 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... | |
 | Edmund Ollier - 1874 - 660 páginas
...with a bitterness which nothing but facts is likely to have drawn from his equable nature, " 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... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1876 - 542 páginas
...despaired at length despairing ? There was reason to do so. " If I were to be called upon," he said, " 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... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1876 - 538 páginas
...despaired at length despairing ? There was reason to do so. " If I were to be called upon," he said, " 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... | |
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