 ... 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
 | George Washington - 1908 - 500 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... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - 1911 - 848 Seiten
...party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, while the momentous concern of an empire, a great and accumulating debt, ruined...as if our affairs wore the most promising aspect. " Georgt Washington, John Habberton, p. 180. CHAPTER XXII THE BATTLE OF MONMOUTH AND THE TREACHERY... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1912 - 540 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 - 1912 - 546 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... | |
 | 1914 - 594 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 the true one, I need not repeat to you... | |
 | John McFarland Kennedy - 1914 - 430 Seiten
...depreciated money, and want of credit, which, in its consequences, is the want of everything, are all secondary considerations, and postponed from day to...as if our affairs wore the most promising aspect." It is of very great importance for us to realise that this salient trait of American character was... | |
 | Thomas Edward Watson - 1916 - 598 Seiten
...disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day; while the momentous concerns of the empire, a great and accumulating debt, ruined finances,...as if our affairs wore the most promising aspect." John Adams had oratorically decreed that the war should be violent and short, but oratory does not... | |
 | 1916 - 544 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... | |
 | Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart - 1916 - 576 Seiten
...consequences, is the want cf everything, are but secondary considerations and postponed from day to day and week to week as if our affairs wore the most promising aspect." * Undoubtedly the disorder and confusion in the finances and general * Irving, Life of Washington,... | |
 | Augustus White Long - 1917 - 458 Seiten
...irretrievable ruin, if a remedy is not soon applied, and in which theirs also must ultimately by involved. If I were to be called upon to draw a picture of the...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,... | |
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