 | 1917 - 996 pages
...which you did a great wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother-officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your...for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is success,... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 946 pages
...you could, in which you did a great wrong to the country, and to a most meritorious and honourable brother officer. I have heard, in such a way as to...course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I gave you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1879 - 228 pages
...-which you did a great wrong to the country, and to a most meritorious and honorable brother-officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your...for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes can set up Dictators. What I now ask of you is... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1879 - 218 pages
...which you did a great wrong to the country, and to a most meritoriousand honorable brother-officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your...for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes can set up Dictators. What I now ask of you is... | |
 | John William Jones - 1879 - 402 pages
...wrong both to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard in such way as to believe it of your recently saying that...for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up as dictators. What I now ask of you... | |
 | Henry Edwin Tremain - 1881 - 36 pages
...wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such way as to believe it, of your recently saying that...for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is... | |
 | Third Army Corps Union, John Cleveland Robinson - 1881 - 48 pages
...wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such way as to believe it, of your recently saying that...for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is... | |
 | Theodore Ayrault Dodge - 1881 - 282 pages
...wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother-officer. I have heard, in such way as to believe it, of your recently saying that...for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain success can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military... | |
 | Samuel Penniman Bates - 1882 - 280 pages
...profession, in which you are right. You have confidence in yourself, which is a valuable, if not an indispensable quality. You are ambitious, which, within...for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is... | |
 | Benjamin F. Cook - 1882 - 194 pages
...ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm; but I think, that, during Gen. Burnside's command of the army, you have taken counsel...for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is... | |
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Burnside's command of the army you have taken counsel of your ambition and thwarted him as much as you could, in which you did a great wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe... 
