 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 - الصفحة 148المحررون: - 1892 - عدد الصفحات: 334عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 578
...ruin, if a remedy is not soon applied, and in which theirs also must ultimately be involved. 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, Jared Sparks - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 572
...involved. 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, peculation, and an... | |
 | Edward Charles M'Guire - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...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,... | |
 | Edward Charles M'Guire - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 430
...******** '' 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, peculation, and an... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 574
..." If I were to be called upon to draw a pic" ture 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 extrava" gance seem to have laid fast hold of them ; — " that speculation, peculation, and an... | |
 | Samuel Shaw, Josiah Quincy - 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 374
...Harrison, from Philadelphia, on the 30th of December, 1778, Washington thus wrote : — " If I were 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... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 426
...concert his measures with them at Philadelphia, and he writes from thence as follows : — " 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 idle" ness, dissipation, and extravagance... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 410
...concert his measures with them at Philadelphia, and he writes from thence as follows : — " If I were to be called upon to draw a picture "** of the times and of men from what I have seen, heard, *f and in part know, I should in one word say, that idle" ness, dissipation, and extravagance... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 424
...— "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 them; — that "speculation, peculation, and an insatiable... | |
 | George Washington - 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 568
...ruin, if a remedy is not soon applied, and in which theirs also must ultimately be involved. If I were to be called upon to draw a picture of the times and of men, from wiiat I have seen, heard, and in part know, I should in one word say, that idleness, dissipation, and... | |
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