 | Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...intro. ducing checks on the natural impulses of the people." One Cannon, whose occupation was that of ft school- master, who was very much of a pedagogue....against the intention of general Washington to move into winter-quarters, in terms very intelligibly manifesting their dissatisfactio'n with the commander-in-chief;... | |
 | 1823 - 120 страници
...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... | |
 | 1825 - 464 страници
...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... | |
 | 1825 - 472 страници
...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... | |
 | Amos Blanchard (of Cincinnati.), Amos Blanchard - 1825 - 464 страници
...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... | |
 | James Thacher - 1827 - 494 страници
...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 a weak General and bad counsellor*, would have ruined it." He was himself at that time one of the counsellors, against whom... | |
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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 ;... 
