 | William E. Phipps - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 406 pages
...MT's opinion, America was becoming increasingly reliant on what Washington Irving had earlier called "the almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land."" Justin Kaplan comments: All but a few of the characters in The Gilded Age worship the golden calf;... | |
 | Washington Irving - Explorers - 1895 - 444 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... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 720 pages
...is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet. 3612 Heine: Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos. Lutetia. The Almighty Dollar, that great object of universal...have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages. 3013 Washington Ininy : The Creole Village. Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. GoM is the... | |
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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... 
