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Página 99
... hope ever shall have ) the greatest respect and veneration for General Washington ; I think him en- dow'd with many great and good qualities ; but in this instance , I must pronounce that he has been guilty of an act of cruel injustice ...
... hope ever shall have ) the greatest respect and veneration for General Washington ; I think him en- dow'd with many great and good qualities ; but in this instance , I must pronounce that he has been guilty of an act of cruel injustice ...
Página 177
... hope the common allowances will be made for error - To com- pare things on a small scale with those on a great- that a general who commands a covering army , as Mar- shal Saxe did at Fontenoy , to receive an enemy who must attack him ...
... hope the common allowances will be made for error - To com- pare things on a small scale with those on a great- that a general who commands a covering army , as Mar- shal Saxe did at Fontenoy , to receive an enemy who must attack him ...
Página 181
... hope every General for the future , who has any regard for his own interest or that of the pub- lic , will devise some means to keep the field clear of . Arriving in the plain , in view of the enemy , the follow- ing was the disposition ...
... hope every General for the future , who has any regard for his own interest or that of the pub- lic , will devise some means to keep the field clear of . Arriving in the plain , in view of the enemy , the follow- ing was the disposition ...
Página 194
... hope , as can only appear an appeal to the good sense and reason of the Court . General Wayne says that he made frequent requests to me by his Aid - de - Camps in the course of the day , and that he made them in vain ; one while to ...
... hope , as can only appear an appeal to the good sense and reason of the Court . General Wayne says that he made frequent requests to me by his Aid - de - Camps in the course of the day , and that he made them in vain ; one while to ...
Página 202
... prosecution in the cause of an injured community , I hope his prudence will dictate to him the necessity of being furnished with a better apparatus . As to Monsieur Langfrang's relation of the very curious conversation 202 THE LEE PAPERS .
... prosecution in the cause of an injured community , I hope his prudence will dictate to him the necessity of being furnished with a better apparatus . As to Monsieur Langfrang's relation of the very curious conversation 202 THE LEE PAPERS .
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 300 - To sigh for ribands if thou art so silly, Mark how they grace Lord Umbra or Sir Billy. Is yellow dirt the passion of thy life ? Look but on Gripus or on Gripus
Página 298 - And hence one master passion in the breast. Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
Página 173 - Kemp who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, did depose and say That on the day of...
Página 274 - I do more than common civility and a proper respect to his rank required, to conciliate his good opinion. His temper and plans were too versatile and violent to attract my admiration: and that I have escaped the venom of his tongue and pen so long, is more to be wondered at than applauded ; as it is a favour that no officer under whose immediate commands he ever served has the happiness (if happiness can be thus denominated) of boasting.
Página 376 - Colonel Butler will form a column on the left of Febiger and Major Murphey in his rear. "Every officer and soldier are then to fix a piece of white paper in the most conspicuous part of his hat or cap as an insignia to be distinguished from the enemy.
Página 99 - ... articles you ground your charge, that I may prepare for my justification, which I have the happiness to be confident I can do to the army, to the Congress, to America, and to the world in general. Your Excellency must give me leave to observe, that neither yourself, nor those about your person, could from your situation be in the least judges of the merits or demerits of our manoeuvres ; and, to speak with a becoming pride, I can assert that to these manoeuvres the success of the day was entirely...
Página 357 - I do most sincerely declare, that your assault of Stony Point is not only the most brilliant, in my opinion, throughout the whole course of the war on either side, but that it is the most brilliant I am acquainted with in history ; the assault of Schweidnitz by Marshal Laudon, I think inferior to it. I wish you, therefore, most sincerely, joy of the laurels you have deservedly acquired, and that you may long live to wear them.
Página 479 - Now if there be no lawful cause to obstruct the said marriage then the above obligation to be void, else to remain in full force and virtue.
Página 376 - ... no soldier to be permitted to quit his ranks on any pretext whatever, until a general halt is made, and then to be attended by one of the officers of the platoon. When the head of the troops arrive in rear of the hill.
Página 100 - Sir, you cannot afford me greater pleasure than in giving me the opportunity of showing to America the sufficiency of her respective servants. I trust that temporary power of office, and the tinsel dignity attending it, will not be able, by all the mists they can raise, to obfuscate the bright rays of truth.