 Owing to his natural disposition to assume all power and control in all matters that he had anything whatever to do with, he boldly took command of the armies, and, while issuing no orders on the subject, prohibited any order from me going out of the...  The Tragic Era: The Revolution After Lincoln - Strona 174autor: Claude Gernade Bowers - 1929 - Liczba stron: 567Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | 1918 - Liczba stron: 502
...to override them to accomplish some military purpose. General Grant remarked of him, thus: "Owing to his natural disposition to assume all power and control in all matters that he had anything whatever to do with, he boldly took command of the armies, and, while issuing no orders on the subject,... | |
 | Ulysses Simpson Grant - 1885 - Liczba stron: 668
...punish me if they punished anybody, or words to that effect. when we had another little spat. Owing to his natural disposition to assume all power and control in all matters that he had anything whatever to do with, he boldly took command of the armies, and, while issuing no orders on the subject,... | |
 | Ulysses Simpson Grant - 1885 - Liczba stron: 686
...Secretary of War and myself that occurred until the war was over, when we had another little spat. Owing to his natural disposition to assume all power and control in all matters that he had anything whatever to do with, he boldly took command of the armies, and, while issuing no orders on the subject,... | |
 | Ulysses Simpson Grant - 1894 - Liczba stron: 694
...Secretary of War and myself that occurred until the war was over, when we had another little spat. Owing to his natural disposition to assume all power and control in all matters that he had anything whatever to do with, he boldly took command of the armies, and, while issuing no orders on the subject,... | |
 | Daniel Wait Howe - 1902 - Liczba stron: 444
...to his own. Grant's opinion of Stanton is expressed without any circumlocution. He says:8 "Owing to his natural disposition to assume all power and control in all matters that he had anything whatever to do with, he boldly took command of the armies, and, while issuing no orders on the subject,... | |
 | Frank Abial Flower - 1905 - Liczba stron: 584
...them among other criticisms of Stanton, may be found the following, in Volume II. : [P. 37] Owing to his natural disposition to assume all power and control in all matters that he had anything whatever to do with (a) he boldly took command of the armies, and, while issuing no orders on the subject,... | |
 | 1915 - Liczba stron: 884
...somewhat rhetorically; and Grant, in more sober language, comments on his 'natural disposition to usurp all power and control in all matters that he had anything to do with.' Equally severe is the comment of Welles. 'Mr. Stanton was fond of power and its exercise. It was more... | |
 | James Havelock Campbell - 1916 - Liczba stron: 472
...STANTON'S TIMIDITY, AND LOVE OF POWER As to his insatiable love of power, General Grant says: "Owing to his natural disposition to assume all power and control in all matters that he had anything to do with, he boldly took command of the army." 1 This was after the war, when Grant was Lieutenantgeneral of... | |
 | Gamaliel Bradford - 1916 - Liczba stron: 368
...of power," Piatt calls him,3 somewhat rhetorically, and Grant, in more sober language, comments on his natural disposition "to assume all power and control in all matters that he had anything whatever to do with." * Equally severe is the remark of Welles: "Mr. Stanton was fond of power and... | |
 | 1918 - Liczba stron: 500
...to override them to accomplish some military purpose. General Grant remarked of him, thus: "Owing to his natural disposition to assume all power and control in all matters that he had anything whatever to do with, he boldly took command of the armies, and, while issuing no orders on the subject,... | |
| |
