 | Herman Haupt - 1901 - 354 pages
...the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard in such a way as I believe it, of your recently saying that both the...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 yon is military... | |
 | John George Nicolay - 1902 - 604 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... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - 1902 - 482 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... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - 1902 - 476 pages
...reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm ; but I think that during General Burnside's command 264 of the army you have taken counsel of your ambition...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... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Sir Stanley Mordaunt Leathes - 1903 - 796 pages
...wrong to the country 1863] Hooker's march on Richmond 485 and to a most meritorious and honourable brother officer. I have heard, in such a way as to...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... | |
 | Robert Herrick, Lindsay Todd Damon - 1902 - 444 pages
...heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the govern ment needed a dictator. Of course, it was not 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... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - 1903 - 478 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 460 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 394 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... | |
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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... 
