 | Washington Irving - 1884 - 516 pages
...turning them into granite stores. The trees, under which they have been born and have played in infancy, flourish undisturbed; though, by cutting them down,...villages ; and unless some of its missionaries penetrate there, and erect banking houses and other pious shrines, there is no knowing how long the inhabitants... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1884 - 442 pages
...turning them into granite stores. The trees under which they have been born, and have played in infancy, flourish undisturbed ; though, by cutting them down,...throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees ill these peculiar villages; and unless some of ita missionaries penetrate there, and erect bankinghouses... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations, English - 1884 - 716 pages
...healthy, wealthy, and wise. MONEY.— This bank-note world. , FITZ-ÜBEENE HALLECK. — Alnwlck Castle. The Almighty Dollar, that great object of universal...have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages. WASHINGTON IKVINO. — The Creole Village. MOON, THE.— Most welcome to the lover's eight, Glitters... | |
 | Titbits - 1884 - 376 pages
...term " almighty dollar," seems to have been Washington Irving, who, in his " Creole Village," says : " The almighty dollar, that great object of universal...have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages." 478. — What was the origin of the phrase "Enough to poison a north country chemist " ? The first... | |
 | Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland - Cant - 1889 - 578 pages
...which, when it comes ^to likings and dislikings, might last to ' ahmghty crack.1 " — My Novel. "The l almighty dollar,' that great object of universal devotion...no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages."— Washington Irving: Creole Village. Almyra, an Anglo-Indian word for a chest of drawers, derived from... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 656 pages
...cnmoth nigh, The brief day's close. [Continued from Volume IV., page 490.] FROM "THE CREOLE VILLAGE." The Almighty Dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land. WASHINGTON IKVING. 1783-1839. A VOW, IK "THE LIBERATOR," VOL. I., NO. 1. 1831. I will be as harsh as... | |
 | Quotations - 1891 - 1192 pages
...small scale, who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea. The Slmt Gentieman, The almighty dollar,1 that great object of universal devotion throughout...have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages. Tht Create Village. LEIGH HUNT. 1784-1859. Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase !) Awoke one night... | |
 | William S. Walsh - Curiosa - 1892 - 1116 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - Curiosa - 1892 - 1114 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
