 ... party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day; whilst the momentous concerns of an empire, a great and accumulating debt, ruined finances, depreciated money, and want of credit, which in its consequences is the want of everything,...  George Washington - Seite 252von Henry Cabot Lodge - 1889Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Henry P. Johnston - 1900 - 266 Seiten
...Warren, of Massachusetts, he poured out his soul in the most anxious terms. To the former he wrote: "If I were to be called upon to draw a picture of...as if our affairs wore the most promising aspect. After drawing this picture, which from my soul I believe to be a true one, I need not repeat to you,... | |
 | Henry Phelps Johnston - 1900 - 264 Seiten
...Warren, of Massachusetts, he poured out his soul in the most anxious terms. To the former he wrote: "If I were to be called upon to draw a picture of...as if our affairs wore the most promising aspect. After drawing this picture, which from my soul I believe to be a true one, I need not repeat to you,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1901 - 650 Seiten
...order of men ; that party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day ; while the momentous concerns of an empire, a great and accumulating...as if our affairs wore the most promising aspect. ... In the present situation of things, I cannot help asking where are Mason, "Wythe, Jefferson, Nicholas,... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - 1901 - 492 Seiten
...and accumulated debt — ruined finances — depreciated money — and want of credit (which in their consequences is the want of everything) are but secondary...day to day — from week to week as if our affairs wear the most promising aspect — after drawing this picture, which from my Soul I believe to be a... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 768 Seiten
...should in one word say that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold upon most of them ; that speculation, peculation, and an...as if our affairs wore the most promising aspect. After drawing this picture, which from my soul I believe to be a true one, I need not repeat to you... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1904 - 534 Seiten
...empire, a great and accumulating debt, ruined finances, depreciated money, and want of credit, whilst in its consequences is the want of everything, are...as if our affairs wore the most promising aspect. Our money is now sinking 50 per cent a day in this city (Philadelphia), and I shall not be surprised... | |
 | Emory Upton - 1904 - 532 Seiten
...empire, a great and accumulating debt, ruined finances, depreciated money, and want of credit, whilst in its consequences is the want of everything, are...as if our affairs wore the most promising aspect. Our money is now sinking 50 per cent a day in this city (Philadelphia), and I shall not be surprised... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1905 - 660 Seiten
...every order of men; that party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day; while the momentous concerns of an empire, a great and accumulating...week, as if our affairs wore the most promising aspect In the present situation of things, I cannot help asking where are Mason, Wythe, Jefferson, Nicholas,... | |
 | Arthur Johnston - 1908 - 318 Seiten
...similar experience, Washington declared : " If I were called upon to draw a picture of the times and men, from what I have seen, heard, and in part know,...as if our affairs wore the most promising aspect. . . . Speculation, peculation, engrossing, forestalling, with all their concomitants, afford too many... | |
 | Arthur Johnston - 1908 - 316 Seiten
...similar experience, Washington declared: " If I were called upon to draw a picture of the times and men, from what I have seen, heard, and in part know,...as if our affairs wore the most promising aspect. . . . Speculation, peculation, engrossing, forestalling, with all their concomitants, afford too many... | |
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