 Every day's experience proves more and more that the present mode of supplies is the most uncertain, expensive, and injurious that could be devised. It is impossible for us to form any calculations of what we are to expect, and, consequently, to concert...  Money and Banking Illustrated by American History - Page 135by Horace White - 1896 - 488 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1835 - 580 pages
...without the means of subsistence would be absurd. Every day's experience proves more and more, that the present mode of obtaining supplies is the most...uncertain, expensive, and injurious, that could be devised. It is impossible for us to form any calculations of what we are to expect, and consequently to concert... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1835 - 590 pages
...without the means of subsistence would be absuid. Every day's experience proves more and more, that the present mode of obtaining supplies is the most...uncertain, expensive, and injurious, that could be devised. It is impossible for us to form any calculations of what we are to expect, and consequently to concert... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1839 - 586 pages
...without the means of subsistence would be absurd. Every day's experience proves more and more, that the present mode of obtaining supplies is the most...uncertain, expensive, and injurious, that could be devised. It is impossible for us to form any calculations of what we are to expect, and consequently to concert... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1855 - 580 pages
...without the means of subsistence would be absurd. Every day's experience proves more and more, that the present mode of obtaining supplies is the most...uncertain, expensive, and injurious, that could be devised. It is impossible for us to form any calculations of what we are to expect, and consequently to concert... | |
 | Washington Irving - Presidents - 1857 - 588 pages
...already in the field to avoid. Every diiy's experience proves more and more that the present mode of supplies is the most uncertain, expensive, and injurious that could be devised. It is impossible for us to form any calculations of what we are to expect, and, consequently, to concert... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1857 - 482 pages
...already in the field to avoid. . . . Every day's experience proves more and more that the present mode of supplies is the most uncertain, expensive, and injurious that could be devised. It is impossible for us to form any calculations of what we are to expect, and, consequently, to concert... | |
 | Washington Irving - Presidents - 1857 - 550 pages
...in the field to avoid. * * * * Every day's experience proves more and more that the present mode of supplies is the most uncertain, expensive and injurious, that could be devised. It is impossible for us to form any calculations of what we are to expect, and consequently, to concert... | |
 | George Washington Greene - History - 1871 - 538 pages
...Every day's experience," wrote Washington after a full and fair trial, '' proves more and more, that the present mode of obtaining supplies is the most...uncertain, expensive, and injurious that could be devised." l Upon none did the burden of depreciation fall so heavily as upon those who were dependent upon salaries... | |
 | George Washington Greene - Generals - 1871 - 538 pages
...Every day's experience," wrote Washington after a full and fair trial, " proves more and more, that the present mode of obtaining supplies is the most...uncertain, expensive, and injurious that could be devised." l Upon none did the burden of depreciation fall so heavily as upon those who were dependent upon salaries... | |
 | Albert Sidney Bolles - Finance - 1879 - 394 pages
...pp. 11, CC. * Washington wrote in August, 1780, " Every day's experience proves more and more, that the present mode of obtaining supplies is the most...uncertain, expensive, and injurious that could be devised" (SpAKKs'a Wi1shin<jton, vol. vii. p. 158). In October, the same year, he wrote, "The army, if it is... | |
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