 | United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 118th (1862-1865) - 1905 - 862 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 success can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military... | |
 | United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 118th (1862-1865) - 1905 - 866 pages
...which you did a great wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother-officer. 1 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 success can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military... | |
 | Newton Martin Curtis - 1906 - 446 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,...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... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1906 - 162 pages
...your position, 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 I/,I'! who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of... | |
 | Samuel Livingston French - 1906 - 388 pages
...ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm ; but I think that during Gen eral 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... | |
 | Helen Nicolay - 1906 - 340 pages
...rather than harm ; but I think that during General Burnside's command of the army you have taken council of your ambition and thwarted him as much as you could,...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... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1906 - 626 pages
...rather than harm ; but I think that during General Burnside's command of the army you have taken council of your ambition and thwarted him as much as you could,...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... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1906 - 606 pages
...rather than harm ; but I think that during General Burnside's command of the army you have taken council of your ambition and thwarted him as much as you could,...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 - 1906 - 504 pages
...General Burnside's command of the army you have taken counsel of your ambition, and thwarted him so much as you could, in which you did a great wrong...for this, but in spite of it that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up for dictators. What I ask of you is... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - 1906 - 700 pages
...had doubts of his loyalty to Burnside. "I have heard," the president wrote Hooker, January 26, 1863, "in such a way as to believe it, of your recently...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... | |
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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... 
