| Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1836 - 574 páginas
...enlistment. For, notwithstanding all the public virtue which is ascribed to these people (in Massachusetts), there is no nation under the sun, that I ever came across, pays greater adoration to money than they do. " We have had the most laborious piece of work at Lechmere's... | |
| Alexander Graydon - 1846 - 532 páginas
...supported by a passage in a letter from General WASHINGTON to General Reed, dated Cambridge, 10th February, 1776. " Notwithstanding all the public virtue which...these people, there is no nation under the sun that pays more adoration to money than they do." 1 am aware that those references to General WASHINGTON'S... | |
| Alexander Graydon - 1846 - 530 páginas
...supported by a passage in a letter from General WASHINGTOM to General Reed, dated Cambridge, 10th February, 1776. "Notwithstanding all the public virtue which...these people, there is no nation under the sun that pays more adoration to money than they do." I am aware that these references to General WASHINGTON'S... | |
| William Bradford Reed - 1847 - 466 páginas
...bounty, they give forty dollars to others, which will, I expect, put a stand to our enlistments; for notwithstanding all the public virtue which is ascribed...no nation under the sun, (that I ever came across,) pay greater adoration to money than they do. than half complete, and recruiting nearly at a stand.... | |
| Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1851 - 572 páginas
...mercenary spirit pervades the whole." . . And of Massachusetts he remarks : " Notwith1776. " standing all the public virtue which is ascribed " to these...which pays greater " adoration to money than they do." And again, in another place : " Such a dearth of public [spirit] " and want of virtue ; such stock... | |
| George Washington - 1852 - 168 páginas
...expect, put a stand to our Inlistments; for notwithstanding all the publick virtue which is ascrib'd to these people, there is no Nation under the sun, (that I ever came across) pay greater adoration to money than they do — I am pleas' d to find that your Battalions are cloathed... | |
| Jared Sparks - 1852 - 48 páginas
...active.' — You will not suffer Washington to say of Massachusetts, as compared with other States, ' there is no nation under the sun. that I ever came across pays greater adoration to money than they do.' — You will not suffer him to say, when New England... | |
| Jared Sparks - 1852 - 68 páginas
...active.' — You will not suffer Washington to say of Massachusetts, as compared with other States, ' there is no nation under the sun that I ever came across pays greater adoration to money than they do.' — You will not suffer him to say, when New England... | |
| Jared Sparks - 1852 - 60 páginas
...active.' — You will not suffer Washington to say of Massachusetts, as compared with other States, 6 there is no nation under the sun that I ever came across pays greater adoration to money than they do.3 — You will not suffer him to say, when New England... | |
| Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 410 páginas
...1. 1776). You will not suffer Washington to say of Massachusetts, as compared with other States, " there is no nation under the sun that I ever came " across pays greater adoration to money than they do," (Feb. 10. 1776). You will not suffer him to say, when... | |
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