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Industry , economy , prudence , and fortitude generally inhabit there . \u0026quot; Far from being self - seeking materialists , some lower - class colonists\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA74","page_number":"74","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eextravagance\u003c/b\u003e among the affluent and such rebel- liousness among the aspiring , those Revolutionaries still committed to the ideal of republican simplicity were divided about how best to 74 FOUR: Republicanism Transformed."},{"page_id":"PA75","page_number":"75","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eextravagance\u003c/b\u003e , \u0026quot; he wrote in a newspaper article attacking the club , \u0026quot; it is surely the present . . . . We are exchanging prudence , virtue and economy for those glaring spectres luxury , prodigality and profligacy . \u0026quot; He then asked\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA77","page_number":"77","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eextravagance\u003c/b\u003e . \u0026quot; Jefferson could not understand why patriots would want to discard the noble simplicity and rusticity they had displayed during the war years : I know no condition happier than that of a Virginia farmer might be\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA89","page_number":"89","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eextravagance\u003c/b\u003e . In 1812 he wrote John Adams that he believed \u0026quot; we shall continue to grow , to multiply and prosper until we exhibit an association , powerful , wise and happy , beyond what has yet been seen by man . \u0026quot; Such a program\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA91","page_number":"91","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eextravagance\u003c/b\u003e , Vice and folly ? ” 44 Jefferson never responded directly to these agitated queries . And , for the most part , he remained much more confident than Adams in the ability of his countrymen to manage the difficulties\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA114","page_number":"114","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eextravagance\u003c/b\u003e and snobbery of the bourgeoisie , their own kind , and in this sense their espousal of republican simplicity may have been more profound . Born in New Hampshire in 1788 , Sarah Josepha Hale lived the typically domestic life\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA118","page_number":"118","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eextravagance\u003c/b\u003e . \u0026quot; Instead of assuming the responsibility of chaste republican mothers , some \u0026quot; ladies even boast ignorance of domestic science . \u0026quot; 42 An equally disturbing development was that many mothers who were diligently instructing\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA129","page_number":"129","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eextravagance\u003c/b\u003e : \u0026quot; How insipid is fiction to a mind touched with immortal views . \u0026quot; In a classic bit of under- statement , he later said that Aunt Mary \u0026quot; gave high counsels . \u0026quot; 12 Once , when Waldo and his brother Edward supposedly gave\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA151","page_number":"151","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eextravagance\u003c/b\u003e , \u0026quot; Americans had provoked God to bring down upon them his judgment in the form of the ultimate national calamity - civil war . Yet if such excesses had helped cause the conflict , the martial struggle itself might help\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA152","page_number":"152","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eextravagance\u003c/b\u003e , and ostentatious expenditure . \u0026quot; Edward Everett , one of the most popular political orators of the mid - nineteenth century , was similarly disappointed in the conduct of his fellow citizens . He reported that \u003cb\u003eextravagance\u003c/b\u003e\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA162","page_number":"162","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eextravagance\u003c/b\u003e ; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those de- pendent upon him ; and , after doing so , to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds which he is called upon to ad- minister\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA216","page_number":"216","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eExtravagance\u003c/b\u003e and pretentiousness , \u0026quot; he wrote , were being \u0026quot; energetically encouraged . . . by the admonitions of our social mentors . \u0026quot; Shortly after the war ended , a group of business representatives formed the National Prosperity\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA237","page_number":"237","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eextravagance\u003c/b\u003e , bad personal habits , and selfish per- sonal ambitions . \u0026quot; Employees of the TVA , the code suggested , \u0026quot; should live modestly and economically , avoiding competitive expenditures \u0026quot; and dis- daining \u0026quot; the expectation of\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA275","page_number":"275","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eextravagance\u003c/b\u003e associated with the new administration had found a receptive audience across the country : \u0026quot; We\u0026#39;re beginning to see a turn from deliberate simplicity to a more elaborate lifestyle . \u0026quot; 62 So the myth of ever - increasing\u0026nbsp;..."}],"search_query_escaped":"extravagance"},{});</script></div></div></div><script>(function() {var href = window.location.href;if (href.indexOf('?') !== -1) {var parameters = href.split('?')[1].split('&');for (var i = 0; i < parameters.length; i++) {var param = parameters[i].split('=');if (param[0] == 'focus') {var elem = document.getElementById(param[1]);if (elem) {elem.focus();}}}}})();</script>