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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... "
American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 562
edited by - 1836
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American Sayings: Famous Phrases, Slogans, and Aphorisms

Henry Fitzwilliam Woods - Quotations, American - 1945 - 328 pages
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The Reader's Encyclopedia: An Encyclopedia of World Literature and ..., Volume 1

William Rose Benét - Art - 1948 - 1292 pages
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Book of Quotations, Proverbs and Household Words

Sir William Gurney Benham - Proverbs - 1949 - 1318 pages
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International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations: With a ...

William S. Walsh - Quotations - 1951 - 1116 pages
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FPA Book of Quotations: A New Collection of Famous Sayings, Reflecting the ...

Franklin Pierce Adams - Quotations, English - 1952 - 948 pages
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The American Treasury, 1455-1955

Clifton Fadiman - American literature - 1955 - 1142 pages
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The American Treasury, 1455-1955

Clifton Fadiman - American literature - 1955 - 1160 pages
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The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates

Gorton Carruth - African Americans - 1956 - 730 pages
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The Nation Takes Shape: 1789-1837

Marcus Cunliffe - History - 1959 - 232 pages
...not until 1837 did Washington Irving coin an expression that gained wide currency, when he wrote of "the Almighty Dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land." The phrase was picked up and given wider circulation by Charles Dickens in his American Notes (1840)....
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The American Literary Record, Volume 2

Willard Thorp - American literature - 1961 - 1030 pages
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