| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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