| James Spear Loring - Boston (Mass.) - 1852 - 762 pages
...every office-holder in the Union." We will cite two passages from this effective, patriotic speech : <'Is there on this earth any collection of men, in...infested than this with the vermin that breed in the corruptions of power ? Is there any in which place and official emolument more certainly follow distinguished... | |
| James Spear Loring - History - 1852 - 720 pages
...every office-holder in the Union." We will cite two passages from this effective, patriotic speech : " Is there on this earth any collection of men, in which...love of office or place, particularly of fat places 7 Is there any country more infested than this with the vermin that breed in the corruptions of power... | |
| United States. Congress - United States - 1853 - 720 pages
...beyond what human nnture exhibits in its improved state elsewhere, will be found on trial fallacious. Is there on this earth any collection of men in which...desperate love of office or place— particularly fat places? Is there any in which place and official emolument more cerH. OF R. Amendment to the Constitution.... | |
| Edmund Quincy - 1868 - 590 pages
...beyond what human nature exhibits in its improved state elsewhere, will be found on trial fallacious. Is there on this earth any collection of men in which...infested than this with the vermin that breed in the corruptions of power ? Is there any in which place and official emolument more certainly follow distinguished... | |
| Edmund Quincy - Legislators - 1868 - 590 pages
...beyond what human nature exhibits in its improved state elsewhere, will be found on trial fallacious. Is there on this earth any collection of men in which...infested than this with the vermin that breed in the corruptions of power ? Is there any in which place and official emolument more certainly follow distinguished... | |
| United States. Congress. Joint Select Committee on Retrenchment - Civil service - 1868 - 240 pages
...beyond what human nature exhibits in its improved state elsewhere, will be found, OD trial, fallacious. Is there on this earth any collection of men in which...and desperate love of office or place, particularly fat places ? Is there any ill which place and official emolument more certainly follow distinguished... | |
| Josiah Quincy - United States - 1874 - 436 pages
...beyond what human nature exhibits in its improved state elsewhere, will be found, on trial, fallacious. Is there on this earth any collection of men in which...infested than this with the vermin that breed in the corruptions of power ? Is there any in which place and official emolument more certainly follow distinguished... | |
| Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1881 - 744 pages
...the leading article in Niles' Reg., XVII, pp. 426-428, in many respects an interesting article. ' " Is there on this earth any collection of men in which...of office or place — particularly of fat places? la there any country more infested than this with the vermin that breed in the corruption of power?... | |
| William Harrison Clarke - Civil service - 1887 - 216 pages
...elsewhere, will be found on trial fallacious. Is there on this earth any collection of men in which there exists a more intrinsic, hearty, and desperate love...infested than this with the vermin that breed in the corruptions of power ? Is there any in which place and official emolument more certainly follow distinguished... | |
| Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1888 - 740 pages
...the leading article in Niles' Reg., XVII, pp. 426-428, in many respecta on interesting article. ' " Is there on this earth any collection of men in which...follow distinguished servility at elections, or base •currility in the press? And as to eagerness for the reward, what is the fact? Let now one of your... | |
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