 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,...  History of Mexico - Página 11por Hubert Howe Bancroft, William Nemos, Thomas Savage, Joseph Joshua Peatfield - 1886Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 578 páginas
...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...the better of every other consideration, and almost of every order of men ; that party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day... | |
 | Edward Charles M'Guire - 1836 - 430 páginas
...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...the better of every other consideration, and almost of every order of men ; that party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1836 - 574 páginas
...should in one " word say, that idleness, dissipation, and extrava" gance seem to have laid fast hold of them ; — " that speculation, peculation, and...got the better of " every other consideration, and of almost every " order of men ; — that party disputes and personal "quarrels are the great business... | |
 | Edward Charles M'Guire - 1836 - 428 páginas
...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...hold of most of them ; that speculation, peculation, arid an insatiable thirst for riches, seem to have got the better of every other consideration, and... | |
 | Samuel Shaw, Josiah Quincy - 1847 - 392 páginas
...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...the better of every other consideration, and almost of every order of men ; that party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 426 páginas
...should in one word say, that idle" ness, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid " fast hold of them ; — that speculation, peculation, and "...got the better " of every other consideration, and of almost every order " of men ; — that party disputes and personal quarrels are " the great business... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 410 páginas
...dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid " fast hold of them ; — that speculation, peculation, and 4 an insatiable thirst for riches seem to have got the better < of every other consideration, and of almost every order of men ; — that party disputes and personal quarrels are * the great business... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1854 - 424 páginas
...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 thirst for riches "seem to have got the... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1855 - 682 páginas
...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...the better of every other consideration, and almost of every order of men ; that party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 1194 páginas
...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...the better of every other consideration, and almost of every order of men; that party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day;... | |
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