 | John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley - 1890
...almost every vice, ALUIGHTIE gold. 1839. WASHINGTON IRVING, Wolfert'i Roost: A Creole Village, p. 40. The ALMIGHTY DOLLAR, that great object of universal...devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotee in these peculiar villages. 1876. BP.SANT AND RICE, Golden BuiUrJly, ch. xxii. " Genius, gentlemen,... | |
 | WILLIAM S WALSH - 1892
...mammon, the love of gold, seems to have been first used by so classic a writer as Washington Irving: lgoAo \ \ l k V V nzp l o o o o o n p{g 73e&` fKm o'prk n n m Xtg devotee in these peculiar villages." (Wolferfs Roost: A Creole Village!) Yet, after all, as Farmer... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1104 oldal
...mammon, the love of gold, seems to have been first used by so classic a writer as Washington Irving: "The Almighty Dollar, that great object of universal...devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotee in these peculiar villages." ( Wolferfs Roost: A Creole Village.) Yet, after all, as Farmer... | |
 | Lucy Tappan - 1896 - 334 oldal
...-grows old must take care not to grow musty, or fusty, or rusty — an old bachelor especially. LETTER. THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR, that great object of universal...have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages. THE CREOLE VILLAGE. HE [Governor Van Twiller] was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet... | |
 | 1896 - 1178 oldal
...silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdome. r. HEREICK — Money Gets the Mastery. best friends do not know us. d. CHARLES LAMB —...smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth h s. WASHINGTON IRVING — The Creole Village. Get money ; still get money, boy ; No matter by what means.... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 510 oldal
...an infinite conjugation of the verb — ' To Do '." CARLYLE. French Revolution, Bk. III., Ck. I. " The almighty dollar — that great object of universal devotion throughout our land!" WASHINGTON IRVING. The Creole Villag,. " The angel, Pity, shuns the walks of war ! " ERASMUS DARWIN.... | |
 | James Mollison Milne - 1900 - 374 oldal
...equivalent) in apposition. 1. That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory. — Beecher. 2. The almighty dollar, that great object of universal...have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages. — Irving. 2. Noun or pronoun in possessive case. 1. A nation's character is the sum of its splendid... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900
...misfortune; but great minds rise above it.— The Shetch Booh: ^Philip of Pohanohct? "The Almighty Dollar." —The Almighty Dollar, that great object of universal...our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these particular villages.— The Creole Village. Cultivation and Society.—Society is like a lawn, where... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902
...great minds rise above it.— The Sketch Boot: «Philip of PokanokctV «The Almighty Dollar.» — The Almighty Dollar, that great object of universal...our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these particular villages. — The Creole Village. Cultivation and Society.— Society is like a lawn, where... | |
 | 1903 - 1158 oldal
...scale, who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea. The Stout Gentleman. The almighty dollar,1 that great object of universal devotion throughout...have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages. ne Creole Village. LEIGH HUNT. 1784-1859. Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase !) Awoke one night... | |
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In a word, the almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages... 
