 | Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 sayfa
...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 sayfa
...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 sayfa
...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 sayfa
...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 sayfa
...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 sayfa
...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 sayfa
...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 sayfa
...received countenance from several members of Congress, who were mduced to declare their want of confidence in him, and the affair assumed an aspect threatening...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... | |
 | Amos Blanchard (of Cincinnati.), Amos Blanchard - 1825 - 464 sayfa
...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... | |
 | James Thacher - 1827 - 502 sayfa
...countenance from several members of Congress, who were induced to declare their want of confidence in him, and the affair assumed an aspect threatening...the counsellors, against whom he so basely inveighs. Euvj This gentleman was born in Ireland, and went with his parents to France, at the age of six years,... | |
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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 ;... 
