 ... of a people for their liberty, and contrasting it with that in which the chivalrous youth by his bedside was engaged — "I die," added he bitterly, "the victim of my ambition and of the avarice of my sovereign.  The Life of George Washington - Stran 49avtor: Washington Irving - 2005 - 412 straniOmejen predogled - O knjigi
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 594 strani
...officer, who constantly attended him in his illness, " It is finishing a noble career early ; I die the victim of my ambition and of the avarice of my sovereign." — Chastellux's Travels, TO MAJOR-GENERAL PUTNAM. Head-Quarters, 25 October, 1777. DEAR SIR, I have... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 590 strani
...officer, who constantly attended him in his illness, " It is finishing a noble career 'early ; I die the victim of my ambition and of the avarice of my sovereign." — Chastellux's Travels, TO MAJOR-GENERAL PUTNAM. Head-Quarters, 25 October, 1777. DEAR SIR, I have... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 600 strani
...officer, who constantly attended him in his illness, " It is finishing a noble career early ; I die the victim of my ambition and of the avarice of my sovereign." — Chastellux's Travels, TO MAJOR-GENERAL PUTNAM. Head-Quarters, 25 October, 1777. DEAR SIR, I have... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 588 strani
...officer, who constantly attended him in his illness, " It is finishing a noble career early; I die the victim of my ambition and of the avarice of my sovereign." — Chastellux's Travds, TO MAJOR-GENERAL PUTNAM. Head-Quarters, 25 October, 1777. DEAR SIR, I have... | |
 | William Leete Stone - 1838 - 540 strani
...French officer who constantly attended him in his illness, " It is finishing a noble career early. I die the victim of my ambition, and of the avarice of my sovereign." — l^ravelt of the .Uui i/t'i'3 ChtuttUux. tlement of Berne, where they surprised and made prisoner... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1839 - 592 strani
...officer, who constantly attended him in his illness, " It is finishing a noble career early ; I die the victim of my ambition and of the avarice of my sovereign." — ChasteUux's Travel*, TO MAJOR-GENERAL PUTNAM. Head-Quarters, 25 October, 1777. DEAR SIR, I have... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - 1844 - 546 strani
...acquitting himself of this sad duty. " It is finishing a noble career early," said the colonel ; " but I die the victim of my ambition, and of the avarice of my sovereign." Fifteen wounded officers were found, like him, upon the field of battle. M. de Mauduit had the satisfaction... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1852 - 946 strani
...afterward. " It is finishing a noble career early" [he was thirty-seven], said Donop to Manduit, "but I die the victim of my ambition and of the avarice of my sovereign."' The loss of the Americans within the fort was eight men killed, twenty-nine wounded, and a captain... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 1194 strani
...which he had fallen, hired out by his prince to aid a foreign power in quelling the brave struggle of a people for their liberty, and contrasting it...He was but thirty-seven years of age at the time of his death. According to the plan of the enemy, Fort Mifflin, opposite to Fort Mercer, was to have been... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1856 - 516 strani
...which he had fallen, hired out by his prince to aid a foreign power in quelling the brave struggle of a people for their liberty, and contrasting it...He was but thirtyseven years of age at the time of his death. * De Chastellnx, vol. ip 266. VOL. III. 12* According to the plan of the enemy, Fort Mifflin,... | |
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