 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 986 strani
...fabric we had been building. There never was so d — da stroke; entre nous, a certain great man is most damnably deficient. He has thrown me into a situation...and army; and if I do not stay, the province is lost for ever. * * * * * As to what relates to yourself, if you think you can be in time to aid the general,... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1882 - 636 strani
...nearly hopeless. ' Between ourselves,' he wrote to his friend Gates, * a certain great man is most damnably deficient. He has thrown me into a situation where I have my choice of difficulties. Jf I stay in this province I risk myself and army, and if I do not stay, the province is lost for ever.... | |
 | Rebecca McConkey - 1885 - 324 strani
...fabric we had been building. There never was so damned a stroke. Entre nous, a certain great man is most damnably deficient. He has thrown me into a situation...difficulties : if I stay in this province I risk myself and my army ; if I do not stay, the province is lost forever. Tories are in my front, rear, and on my flanks.... | |
 | James Harrison Kennedy - 1888 - 802 strani
...entre nous, a certain great man is most damnably deficient. He has thrown me into a situation in which I have my choice of difficulties. If I stay in this...and if I do not stay the province is lost forever. As to what relates to yourself, if you think you can be in time to aid the general, I would have you... | |
 | John Fiske - 1891 - 402 strani
...ington. "There never was so damned a stroke," said the letter. " Entre nous, a certain great man is most damnably deficient. He has thrown me into a situation...and if I do not stay the province is lost forever. . . . Our counsels have been weak to the last degree. As to yourself, if you think you can be in time... | |
 | John Fiske - 1891 - 400 strani
...ington. " There never was so damned a stroke," said the letter. " Entre nous, a certain great man is most damnably deficient. He has thrown me into a situation...and if I do not stay the province is lost forever. . . . Our counsels have been weak to the last degree. As to yourself, if you think you can be in time... | |
 | John Fiske - 1891 - 406 strani
...ington. "There never was so damned a stroke," said the letter. " Entre nous, a certain great man is most damnably deficient. He has thrown me into a situation...and if I do not stay the province is lost forever. . . . Our counsels have been weak to the last degree. As to yourself, if you think you can be in time... | |
 | John Fiske - 1891 - 398 strani
...said the letter. " Entre nous, a certain great man is most damnably deficient. He has thrown me iuto a situation where I have my choice of difficulties....and if I do not stay the province is lost forever. . . . Our counsels have been weak to the last degree. As to yourself, if you think you can be in time... | |
 | 1894 - 844 strani
...entre nous, 3. certain great man is most damnably deficient. He has thrown me into a situation in which I have my choice of difficulties. If I stay in this...and if I do not stay the province is lost forever. As to what relates to yourself, if you think you can be in time to aid the general, I would have you... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay, Noah Brooks - 1896 - 718 strani
...arrival." In a letter to General Gates, two days later, lie says, " Entre nous, a certain great man is most damnably deficient. He has thrown me into a situation...not stay, the Province is lost forever — .... I must act with the greatest circumspection — . . . . as to what relates to yourself, if you think... | |
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The ingenious manoeuvre of Fort Washington has unhinged the goodly fabric we had been building. There never was so damned a stroke. Entre nous, a certain great man is most damnably deficient. He has thrown me into a situation where I have my choice of... 
