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" The trees, under which they have been born, and have played in infancy, flourish undisturbed ; though, by cutting them down, they might open new streets, and put money in their pockets. In a word, the almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion... "
Wolfert's roost: and other sketches - Page 19
by Washington Irving - 1855
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Wolfert's Roost and Other Papers, Now First Collected

Washington Irving - 1884 - 442 pages
...having a voice in public legislation, A few aged men, who have grown gray on their hereditary acres, and are of the good old colonial stock, exert a patriarchal...throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees ill these peculiar villages; and unless some of ita missionaries penetrate there, and erect bankinghouses...
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1,000 answers to 1,000 questions, a reprint of the first (-sixth) 1,000 ...

Titbits - 1884 - 376 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...
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The Crayon Papers

Washington Irving - 1886 - 660 pages
...having a voice in public legislation. A few aged men, who have grown gray on their hereditary acres, and are of the good old colonial stock, exert a patriarchal...some of its missionaries penetrate there, and erect banking houses and other pious shrines, there is no knowing how long the inhabitants may remain in...
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A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors ...

Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 pages
...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. 3613 Washington Irving : The Creole Village. Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is...
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A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American ..., Volume 1

Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland - 1889 - 568 pages
...talk which, when it comes to likings and dislikings, might last to ' almighty crack.' " — My Norcl. "The ' almighty dollar,' that great object of universal...have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages." — Washington Iruing: Crsolt V ilia gc. Almyra, an Anglo-Indian word for a chest of drawers, derived...
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A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American ..., Volume 1

Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland - 1889 - 578 pages
...which, when it comes ^to likings and dislikings, might last to ' ahmghty crack.1 " — My Novel. "The l almighty dollar,' that great object of universal devotion...no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages."— Washington Irving: Creole Village. Almyra, an Anglo-Indian word for a chest of drawers, derived from...
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A Library of American Literature..., Volume 7

Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 656 pages
...cometh nigh, The brief day's close. [Continued from Volume IV., page 490.] FROM "THE CREOLE VILLAGE." The Almighty Dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land. WASHINGTON IRVING. 1783-1859. A VOW, IJT "THE LIBERATOR," VOL. L, NO. 1. 1831. I will be as harsh as...
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical ..., Volume 1

John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley - 1890 - 430 pages
...almost every vice, ALUIGHTIE gold. 1839. WASHINGTON IRVING, Wolfert'i Roost: A Creole Village, p. 40. The ALMIGHTY DOLLAR, that great object of universal...devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotee in these peculiar villages. 1876. BP.SANT AND RICE, Golden BuiUrJly, ch. xxii. " Genius, gentlemen,...
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Handy-book of Literary Curiosities

William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 pages
...mammon, the love of gold, seems to have been first used by so classic a writer as Washington Irving: "The Almighty Dollar, that great object of universal...devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotee in these peculiar villages." ( Wolferfs Roost: A Creole Village.) Yet, after all, as Farmer...
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Handy-book of Literary Curiosities

William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 pages
...mammon, the love of gold, seems to have been first used by so classic a writer as Washington Irving: lgoAo \ \ l k V V nzp l o o o o o n p{g 73e&` fKm o'prk n n m Xtg devotee in these peculiar villages." (Wolferfs Roost: A Creole Village!) Yet, after all, as Farmer...
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