 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Generals - 1848 - 394 pages
...characteristic of his ill-regulated mind, and of that spirit of morbid jealousy which was his ruin. " If I P stay in this province, I risk myself and army, and if I do not stay, the province is lost for ever. I have neither guides, cavalry, medicines, money, shoes or stockings. Tories are in my front,... | |
 | Washington Irving - Celebrities - 1855 - 606 pages
...nous, a certain great man is most damnably deficient. He has thrown me into a situation where I have my choice of difficulties : if I stay in this province...army ; and if I do not stay, the province is lost for ever. * * * * * As to what relates to yourself, if you think you can be in time to aid the general,... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1857 - 610 pages
...nous, a certain great man is most damnably deficient. He has thrown me into a situation where I have my choice of difficulties. If I stay in this province,...and army, and if I do not stay, the province is lost for ever. I have neither guards, cavalry, medicines, money, shoes or stockings. I must act with the... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - Generals - 1857 - 594 pages
...a certain great man is most d — bly deficient. He has thrown me into a situation where I have my choice of difficulties ; if I stay in this province...and army ; and if I do not stay the province is lost for ever." The account of his capture (given by Wilkinson,) concludes : — " There was a shout of... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1857 - 612 pages
...a certain great man is most damnably deficient. He has thrown me into a situation where I have my; choice of difficulties. If I stay in this province,...and army, and if I do not stay, the province is lost for ever. I have neither guards, cavalry, medicines, money, shoes or stockings. I must act with the... | |
 | William Thomas Roberts Saffell - Military pensions - 1858 - 566 pages
...deficient. He has thrown me into a situation where I have my choice of difficulties : if I stay in the province I risk myself and army ; and if I do not stay, the province is lost forever."f We will now see what became of our impetuous and "decisive" Lee. He had just signed his... | |
 | George Henry Moore - Lee, Charles, 1731-1782 - 1860 - 206 pages
...certain great man is most damnably deficient — He has thrown me into a situation where I have my choice of difficulties — if I stay in this Province...and Army and if I do not stay the Province is lost for ever — I have neither guides Cavalry Medicines Money Shoes or Stockings — I must act with the... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 872 pages
...nous, a certain great man is most damnably deficient. He has thrown me into a situation where I have my choice of difficulties; if I stay in this province...and army; and if I do not stay the province is lost for ever.... Our counsels have been weak to the last degree. As to what relates to yourself, if you... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1864 - 612 pages
...nous, a certain great man is most damnably deficient. He has thrown me into a situation where I have my choice of difficulties. If I stay in this province,...and army, and if I do not stay, the province is lost for ever. I have neither guards, cavalry, medicines, money, shoes or stockings. I must act with the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1865 - 514 pages
...nous, a certain great man is most damnably deficient. He has thrown me into a situation where I have my choice of difficulties : if I stay in this province...and army; and if I do not stay, the province is lost for ever. * * * * * As to what 'relates to yourself, if you think you can be in time to aid the general,... | |
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Entre nous, a certain great man is most damnably deficient. He has thrown me into a situation where I have my choice of difficulties : if I stay in this province, I risk myself and army ; and if I do not stay, the province is lost forever. 
