 | Washington Irving - 1865 - 488 pages
...into granite stores. The trees under which they have been born, and have played in infancy, nourish undisturbed ; though, by cutting them down, they might...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 - 1883 - 358 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... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea. The Stout Gentleman. The Almighty Dollar, that great object of universal...seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.1 The Creole Village. SIR WFP NAPIER. 1785-1860. Napoleon's troops fought in bright fields,... | |
 | 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 - 378 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... | |
 | Literature - 1891 - 334 pages
...NVlRT F 1Т^ЛКХ JV 14VJIJLiEj. Г=£Е PLIES. April 4, 1891.] AMERICAN NOTES AND QUERIES. versal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages." THOS. Louis OGIER. WEST CHESTER. PA. fíawronoke (Vol. vi, p. 257). — Roanoke is said in " Webster's... | |
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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... 
