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" I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, though death was levelling my companions on every side of me... "
Oration Pronounced by the Honorable Robert C. Winthrop: Speaker of the House ... - Página 12
por Robert Charles Winthrop - 1848 - 23 páginas
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The History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the ...

Jacob Harris Patton - 1867 - 834 páginas
...Washington. In a letter to his brother Augustine he says : " By the all-powerful dispensation of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability...expectation ; for I had four bullets through my coat, two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt., though death was levelling my companions on every side...
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The History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the ...

Jacob Harris Patton - 1868 - 890 páginas
...Washington. In a letter to his brother Augustine he says : " By the all-powerful dispensation of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability...expectation ; for I had four bullets through my coat, two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, though death was levelling my companions on every side...
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Life of George Washington, Volumen13

Washington Irving - 1869 - 620 páginas
...assuring you that I have not composed the latter. But, by the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability,...four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot nnder me, yet escaped unhurt, though death was leveling my companions on every side of me ! " We have...
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Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts, Volumen8

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1870 - 272 páginas
...after the battle, ' I have been protected beyond all human No. 57. 9 probability or expectations ; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses...was levelling my companions on every side of me.' The failure of this expedition was the subject of universal conversation for a long time afterwards,...
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Chambers's Miscellany of Instructive & Entertaining Tracts, Volúmenes7-8

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1870 - 530 páginas
...after the battle, ' I have been protected beyond all human No. 57. " 9 probability or expectations ; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses...was levelling my companions on every side of me.' The failure of this expedition was the subject of universal conversation for a long time afterwards,...
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Words of Washington

George Washington - 1871 - 240 páginas
...killed in the field, where died many other brave officers. I luckily escaped without a wound, though I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me. Captains Orme and Morris, two of the aides-de-camp, were wounded early in the engagement, which rendered...
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A Pictorial Description of the United States: Embracing the History ...

Robert Sears - 1876 - 664 páginas
...acknowledged this, and said in a letter to his brother: ' By the all-powerful dispensation of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability...death was levelling my companions on every side of me/ Not only was this protection known and acknowledged in the pulpit at the time, in that almost prophetic...
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Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia, Volumen2

William Meade - 1878 - 522 páginas
...written a few days after Braddock's defeat, he says, " By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability...through my coat and two horses shot under me, — yet escaped unhurt, — although death was levelling my companions on every side of me." In his entrance...
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Reminiscences of Distinguished Men

William Banks Slaughter - 1878 - 318 páginas
...and Washington alone was left in that capacity on the field. In a letter to his brother, he says : "I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet I escaped unhurt, though death was levelling my companions on every side." His fellow aide, Col. Orme, who was the witness...
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Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia, Volumen2

1878 - 530 páginas
...probability or expectation ; for I had four bullets through my coat and two horses shot under me, — yet escaped unhurt, — although death was levelling my companions on every side of me." In his entrance on the contest with England, he thus writes to General Gage : — " May that God to...
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