 | John Burk - 1816 - Liczba stron: 574
...of his former glorious " services could not be obliterated by any reverse of tor*• tune ; but that ever mindful of his great merit, they " would omit...testifying to the world the *• gratitude which, as a member of the Union, Virginia " owed him in his military character." This homage of the father?... | |
 | Henry Lee - 1827 - Liczba stron: 484
...state of the Union south of Suoijuehanrni; was in session.* Great and good men then governed the state. Instructed by history, guided by the dictates of virtue,...as a member- of the American Union, owed to him in hie military character " General Gates had supported his fall from splendid elevation to obscurity,... | |
 | Henry Lee - 1827 - Liczba stron: 486
...fathers of the commonwealth appointed a committee of their bedy to wait on the vanquished generid, and " to assure him of their high regard and esteem...former glorious services was never to be obliterated by ;my reverse of fortune ; but, ever mindful of his great inprit, they would omit no opportunity of testifying... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - Liczba stron: 480
...remembrance of his former glorious services could not be obliterated by any reverse of fortune ; but that ever mindful of his great merit, they would omit no...opportunity of testifying to the world the gratitude which the country owed to him in his military character." These events, together with a few unimportant skirmishes... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - Liczba stron: 474
...remembrance of his former glorious services could not be obliterated by any reverse of fortune ; but that ever mindful of his great merit, they would omit no...opportunity of testifying to the world the gratitude which the country owed to him in his military character." These events, together with a few unimportant skirmishes... | |
 | John Frost - 1847 - Liczba stron: 602
...remembrance of former glorious services could not be obliterated by any reverse of fortune, and that they would omit no opportunity of testifying to the world the gratitude which the country owed to him in his military character." Thus closed the southern campaign of 1780. Though... | |
 | Charles Jacobs Peterson - 1848 - Liczba stron: 586
...and a committee was appointed to assure the desponding General of " their high regard and esteem, and that their remembrance of his former glorious services...never to be obliterated by any reverse of fortune." Washington also, though so much injured by Gates, extended his sympathy to the unhappy fugitive, and... | |
 | John Frost - 1853 - Liczba stron: 822
...remembrance of his former glonous services could not be obliterated by any reverse of fortune; but that ever mindful of his great merit, they would omit no...opportunity of testifying to the world the gratitude which the country owed to him in his military character." These events, together with a few unimportant skirmishes... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - Liczba stron: 508
...H. Lee, in his Memoirs, " appointed a committee of their body to wait on the vanquished general, and assure him of their high regard and esteem, that their...American Union, owed to him in his military character." Gates was sensibly affected and comforted by this kind reception, and retired with a lightened heart... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - Liczba stron: 500
...Lee, in his memoirs, ' ' appointed a committe of their body to wait on the vanquished general, and assure him of their high regard and esteem, that their...American Union, owed to him in his military character." Gates was sensibly affected and comforted by this kind reception, and retired with a lightened heart... | |
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Those fathers of the commonwealth," writes Colonel H. Lee, in his memoirs, " appointed a committee of their body to wait on the vanquished general, and assure him of their high regard and esteem, that their remembrance of his former glorious services... 
