| Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 σελίδες
...understood, informed his Aid de camp, Major M'Williams, that General Conway had written thus to you ' Heaven has been determined to save your country, or...General and bad Counsellors would have ruined it.' Lord Sterling, from motives of friendship, transmitted the account with this remark. ' The enclosed... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 604 σελίδες
...contained the following paragraph : " In a letter from General Conway to General Gates, he says, ' Heaven has been determined to save your country, or...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 σελίδες
...understood, informed his aid-de-camp, Major M 'Williams, Jhat General Conway had written thus to you, ' Heaven has been determined to save your country,, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have mined it.' Lord Sterling, from motives of friendship, transmitted the account with this remark. ' The... | |
| Henry Lee - 1812 - 444 σελίδες
...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 sir, &c." Neither the letter nor the information which occasioned it was ever, directly or indirectly,... | |
| John Sanderson - 1827 - 388 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...the operations of the army, received countenance from several members of Congress, who were mduced to declare their want of confidence in him, and the...one of the counsellors, against whom he so basely in veighs. Envy and malice ever are attendant on exalted gfnius and merit. But the delusion was of... | |
| 1825 - 462 σελίδες
...an aspect threatening the most disastrous consequences. Comvay maintained a correspondence with Gen. Gates on the subject, and in • one of his letters,...against whom he so basely inveighs. Envy and malice are ever attendant on exalted genius and merit. But the delusion was of short continuance ; the name... | |
| Amos Blanchard (of Cincinnati.), Amos Blanchard - 1825 - 464 σελίδες
...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...that time one of the counsellors, against whom he go basely inveighs. Envy and malice ever are attendant on exalted genius and merit. But the delusion... | |
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