 | Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 Seiten
...intriguing disposition, I wrote him a letter in these words. " Sir, a letter which I received last night, contained the following paragraph. " In a letter from...weak General and bad Counsellors would have ruined it ; I am, sir, Sec.' " Neither the letter, nor the information which occasioned it, was ever directly,... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 604 Seiten
...intriguing disposition, I wrote him a letter in these words. ." Sir, a letter which I received last night contained the following paragraph : " In a letter...general and bad counsellors would have ruined it; I am, sir, &c.' " Neither the letter, nor the information'which occasioned it, was ever directly, or... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 584 Seiten
...intriguing disposition, I wrote him a letter in these words. " Sir, a letter which I received last night contained the following paragraph : " In a letter...General Gates, he says, ' Heaven has been determined to eave your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it; I am, sir, &c.' " Neither... | |
 | Henry Lee - 1812 - 444 Seiten
...intriguing disposition, I wrote him a letter in these words: " Sir, a letter which I received last night contained the following paragraph: ' in a letter from...general Conway to general Gates he says, Heaven has determined to save your country; or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it.' I am... | |
 | John Sanderson - 1827 - 388 Seiten
...pronounced by Washington to have been " a dangerous incendiary," in which the French officer observed, " heaven has been determined to save your country, or...general, and bad counsellors, would have ruined it." At the same time, the legislature of Pennsylvania, chagrined at losing its capital, remonstrated against... | |
 | 1823 - 120 Seiten
...malignant partisan." ' ' The offensive passage in Conway's letter to Gates, was this — Heaven has determined to save your country, or a weak General and bad Counsellors wauldhave ruinedit. . . . We are in possession of various communications, to prove, that the " weak... | |
 | John Sanderson - 1824 - 364 Seiten
...pronounced by Washington to have been " a dangerous incendiary," in which the French officer observed, " heaven has been determined to save your country, or...general, and bad counsellors, would have ruined it." At the same time, the legislature of Pennsylvania, chagrined at losing its capital, remonstrated against... | |
 | 1825 - 472 Seiten
...correspondence with General Gates on the subject, and in one of his letters, he thus expresses himself : — " Heaven has been determined to save your country, or...general and bad counsellors would have ruined it." He was himself at that time one of the counsellors, against whom he so basely in veighs. Envy and malice... | |
 | 1825 - 464 Seiten
...correspondence with General Gates on the subject, and in one of his letters, he thus expresses himself. " Heaven has been determined to save your country, or...General and bad counsellors would have ruined it." He was himself at that time, one of the counsellors, against whom he so basely inveighs. Envy and malice... | |
 | Amos Blanchard (of Cincinnati.), Amos Blanchard - 1825 - 464 Seiten
...General Gates on the subject, and in one of bis letters, he thus expresses himselft — " Heaven has becn determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it." He was himself at that time one of the counsellors, against whom he go basely inveighs. Envy and malice... | |
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Sir, a letter which I received last night contained the following paragraph. "In a letter from General Conway to General Gates, he says, heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it. 
