 | Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - Liczba stron: 576
...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 ; I am, sir, Sec.' " Neither the letter, nor the information which occasioned it, was ever directly,... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - Liczba stron: 604
...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; I am, sir, &c.' " Neither the letter, nor the information'which occasioned it, was ever directly, or... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - Liczba stron: 584
...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 - Liczba stron: 444
...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 - Liczba stron: 388
...Washington to have been " a dangerous incendiary," in which the French officer observed, " heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general, and bad counsellors, would have ruined it." At the same time, the legislature of Pennsylvania, chagrined at losing its capital, remonstrated against... | |
 | James Thacher - 1823 - Liczba stron: 686
...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 counsellors. would have ruined it." He was himself at that time one of the counsellors, against whom he so basely inveighs. Envy and malice... | |
 | 1823 - Liczba stron: 120
...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 - Liczba stron: 364
...Washington to have been " a dangerous incendiary," in which the French officer observed, " heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general, and bad counsellors, would have ruined it." At the same time, the legislature of Pennsylvania, chagrined at losing its capital, remonstrated against... | |
 | 1825 - Liczba stron: 462
...Gen. 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 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 - Liczba stron: 472
...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 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... | |
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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... 
