 | Bill Swainson - Reference - 2000 - 1360 pages
...their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust? "Westminster Abbey," The Sketch Book (1819-20) 9 The almighty dollar, that great object of universal...have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages. "The Creole Village," Wolfert's Roost (1855) Isherwood, Christopher (1904-86) British-born US writer... | |
 | Alan Gurney - Antarctica - 2002 - 332 pages
...Europe, returned home and were appalled at the changes in their country. Irving wrote of the chase after the "almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land." Cooper was struck by the vulgarity of the New York streets lined with glaring red-brick buildings decked... | |
 | Quotations - 2001 - 838 pages
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 | 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;... | |
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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... 
