 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 572 pages
...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...and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most of them; that speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches seem to have got the better... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 578 pages
...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...and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most of them ; that speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches seem to have got the better... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1836 - 574 pages
...from thence as follows : — " 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,...in one " word say, that idleness, dissipation, and extrava" gance seem to have laid fast hold of them ; — " that speculation, peculation, and an insatiable... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1851 - 572 pages
...from thence as follows : — " 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,...in one " word say, that idleness, dissipation, and extrava" gance seem to have laid fast hold of them ; — " that speculation, peculation, and an insatiable... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 426 pages
...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 seem to have laid " fast hold of them ; — that speculation,... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 418 pages
...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 seem to have laid ' fast hold of them ; — that speculation,... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1854 - 424 pages
...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...dissipation, and "extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of them; — that "speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches "seem to have got the... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1855 - 682 pages
...affairs there. ' 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...and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most of them ; that speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches seem to have got the better... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1855 - 568 pages
...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...and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most of them; that speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches seem to have got the better... | |
 | Washington Irving - Presidents - 1856 - 576 pages
...into irretrievable ruin. * * * 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...and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most of them ; that speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches, seem to have got the better... | |
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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,... 
