 In one word, I would not take any risk of being entangled upon the river, like an ox jumped half over a fence and liable to be torn by dogs front and rear without a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other.  Complete Works - Stran 12avtor: Abraham Lincoln - 1894Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1890 - 454 strani
...point, while his main force would in some way be getting the advantage of you northward. In one word, I would not take any risk of being entangled upon...without a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other. If Lee would come to my side of the river, I would keep on the same side and fight him, or act on the... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 548 strani
...point, while his main force would in some way be getting an advantage of you northward. In one word, I would not take any risk of being entangled upon...jumped half over a fence and liable to be torn by CH. vin. dogs front and rear without a fair chance to gore . Lincoln - • to Hooker, one way or kick... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 554 strani
...point, while his main force would in some way be getting an advantage of you northward. In one word, I would not take any risk of being entangled upon the river like an ox THE INVASION OF PENNSYLVANIA . . Vol. XXVII., Part I.. p. 31. to Hooker. Ibid. 1863. jumped half over... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 568 strani
...1863, against early movement, 199; letter to Hooker, June 6, 1883, " Would not take any risk of bcing entangled upon the river like an ox Jumped half over a fence," 204, 205; telegram to Hooker, June 10, 1863, that Lec's army, and not Richmond, is his obJeetive, 208... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1891 - 582 strani
...counsel with military authorities, warned him off. ' I would not take any risk,' 1 2 B 2 wro' wrote, ' of being entangled upon the river like an ox jumped...a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other.' On another occasion he sent this message to the same general : ' If the head of Lee's army is at Martinsburg,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1891 - 580 strani
...ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope — fervently do wo pray — that this mighty scourge of i may wrote, ' of being entangled upon the river like an ox jumped...a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other.' On another occasion he sent this message to the same general : ' If the head of Lee's army is at Martinsburg,... | |
 | 1892 - 858 strani
...point, while his main force would in some way be getting an advantage of you northward. In one word, I would not take any risk of being entangled upon...a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other." Then, Lee in full march on the Upper Potomac, Hooker made the wild proposal that he should be allowed... | |
 | charles carleton coffin - 1892 - 654 strani
...getting an advantage of you northward. In one word, I would not take any risk of being entangled upon a river like an ox jumped half over a fence and liable...a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other." Again General Hooker sent a despatch : " Will it not promote the true interest of the cause for me... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 strani
...getting an advantage of you northward. In one word, I would not take any risk of being entangled upon a river like an ox jumped half over a fence and liable...a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other." Again General Hooker sent a despatch : "Will it not promote the true interest of the canse for me to... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - 1893 - 396 strani
...main Southern army "would in some way be getting an advantage northward." "In one word," he wrote, "I would not take any risk of being entangled upon...a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other." Yet, very soon, when the attenuation of Lee's line became certain, Lincoln sent to Hooker one of his... | |
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