 | Stephen Simpson - Presidents - 1833 - 408 pages
...a passage in a letter written by Colonel Conway to General Gates, which ran thus: ' heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it.' This passage of the letter was communicated by a member of Congress to Washington. Strong in the affections... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 594 pages
...his aid-dc-camp, Major McWilliams, that General Conway had written this to you ; ' Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak General and bad counsellors would have ruined it.' Lord Stirling, from motives of friendship, transmitted the account with this remark ; ' The enclosed... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 590 pages
...his aid-de-camp, Major McWilliams, that General Conway had written this to you ; ' Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak General and bad counsellors would have ruined it.' Lord Stirling, from motives of friendship, transmitted the account with this remark ; ' The enclosed... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1834 - 456 pages
...informed his aid-de-camp, McWilliams, that General Conway had written thus to you : " Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it." Lord Stirling, from motives of friendship, transmitted the account, with this remark, — " the enclosed... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 600 pages
...his aid-de-camp, Major McWilliams, that General Conway had written this to you ; ' Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak General and bad counsellors would have ruined it.' Lord Stirling, from motives of friendship, transmitted the account with this remark ; ' The enclosed... | |
 | John Marshall - Presidents - 1836 - 534 pages
...his aid-de-camp, Major M' Williams, that General Conway had written thus to you, " heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors* would have ruined it." Lord Stirling, from motives of ' one of whom, by the by, he wa*. friendship, transmitted the account... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 588 pages
...following paragraph. " In a letter from General Conway to General Gates he says, ' Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak General and bad counsellors loould have ruined it.'" I am, Sir, your humble servant* TO HENRY LAURENS, PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS-!... | |
 | 1838 - 870 pages
...informed his aid-decamp, Major McWilliams, that General Conway had written this to you : ' Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it.' Lord Stirling, from motives of friendship, transmitted the account with this remark : 'Тле enclosed... | |
 | 1838 - 822 pages
...'"In a letter from General Conway to General Gates, he says, "Heaven has been determined to вате your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it.' I am, sir, your humble servant." Having despatched this letter, Washington coolly awaited the result. It came... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1839 - 592 pages
...his aid-de-camp, Major McWilliams, that General Conway had written this to you ; ' Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak General and bad counsellors would have ruined it.' Lord Stirling, from motives of friendship, transmitted the account with this remark ; ' The enclosed... | |
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Sir, a letter which I received last night contained the following paragraph : ' In a letter from General Conway to General Gates, he says, Heaven has determined to save your country ; or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it. 
