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The North American Review - Page 453
edited by - 1847
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The United States Magazine, and Literary and Political ..., Issue 1, Volume 1

1823 - 120 pages
...active and malignant partisan." ' ' The offensive passage in Conway's letter to Gates, was this — Heaven has determined to save your country, or a weak General and bad Counsellors wauldhave ruinedit. . . . We are in possession of various communications, to prove, that the " weak...
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Collections of the New Jersey Historical Society, Volume 2

1847 - 312 pages
...as follows : " SIR, — A letter which I received last night, contains the following paragraph : ' Heaven has determined to save your country, or a weak General and bad councillors would have ruined it.' " A correspondence now ensued between Generals Washington, Gates...
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The Life of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, Major-General in the Army ...

William Alexander Duer - 1847 - 312 pages
...as follows : " SIR, — A letter which I received last night, contains the following paragraph : ' Heaven has determined to save your country, or a weak General and bad councillors would have ruined it.' " A correspondence now ensued between Generals Washington, Gates...
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The Life of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, Major General for the Army ...

William Alexander Duer - 1847 - 316 pages
...as follows : " SIR, — A letter which I received last night, contains the following paragraph : ' Heaven has determined to save your country, or a weak General and bad councillors would have ruined it.' " A correspondence now ensued between Generals Washington, Gates...
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The Life of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, Major-General in the Army ...

William Alexander Duer - 1847 - 342 pages
...him, as follows: " SIR,—A letter which I received last night, contains the following paragraph : ' Heaven has determined to save your country, or a weak General and bad councillors would have ruined it.'" A correspondence now ensued between Generals Washington, Gates...
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The Life of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, Major-General in the Army ...

William Alexander Duer - 1847 - 314 pages
...as follows : " SIR, — A letter which I received last night, contains the following paragraph : ' Heaven has determined to save your country, or a weak General and bad councillors would have ruined it.' " A correspondence now ensued between. Generals Washington, Gates...
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Works, Volume 9

Washington Irving - 1857 - 1194 pages
...Lib. t Life of Lord Stirling, by WA Duer, p. 182. TOL. in.— 23 Conway to General Gates, he says, " Heaven has determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counselors would have ruined it" ' " I am, sir, your humble servant, " GEORGE WASHINGTON." The brevity...
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Life of George Washington, Volume 3

Washington Irving - 1857 - 622 pages
...Hist. Lib. f Life of Lord Stirling, by WA Dner, p. 188. VOL. m.— 23 Conway to General Gates, he says, "Heaven has determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsdori ' woiM have ruined it." ' " I am, sir, your humble servant, " GEOEGE WASHINGTON." The brevity...
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Alexander Hamilton and His Contemporaries: Or, The Rise of the American ...

Christopher James Riethmüller - 1864 - 516 pages
...in the service of France, appears to have taken a prominent part in these plots. It was he who wrote to Gates:—" Heaven has determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad connsellors wonld have rnined it I"—which passage, coming to the knowledge of Washington, was by...
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Irving's Works: Life of George Washington

Washington Irving - 1882 - 618 pages
...Lib. t Life of Lord Stirling, by WA Duer, p. 183. VOL. in.— 23 Conway to General Gates, he says, " Heaven has determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counselors uoould have ruined it." ' "I am, air, your humble servant, " GEOEGE WASHINGTON." The brevity...
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