 | Jacob Harris Patton - United States - 1868 - 890 pages
...1778. Henry Lee, then a member, he says : " General Conway's m.erit as an officer, and his importance in this army, exist more in his own imagination than in reality." Yet Congress, under the influence of the Cabal, appointed Conway " Inspector of the Annies of the United... | |
 | Jacob Harris Patton - United States - 1876 - 1086 pages
...1778. Henry Lee, then a member, he says : " General Conway's merit as an officer, and his importance in this army, exist more in his own imagination than in reality." Yet Congress, under the influence of the Cabal, appointed Conway " Inspector of the Armies of the United... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1877 - 660 pages
...require this of me. General Conway's merit, then, as an officer, and his importance in the army, exists more in his own imagination than in reality ; for...to leave no service of his own untold, nor to want anything which is to be obtained by importunity." Washington's chief reasons for apprehending disaster... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1879 - 634 pages
...fatal blow to the existence of this army. General Conway'* merit as an officer, and his importance in this army, exist more in his own imagination than...any thing which is to be obtained by importunity.'' ;He then stated his conviction, that > if . • this promotion were made, the brigadiers-" would not... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 618 pages
...justice to individuals, require this of me. General Conway's merit as an officer, and his importance in this army, exist more in his own imagination than...to leave no service of his own untold, nor to want anything which is to be obtained by importunity I would ask why the youngest brigadier in the service... | |
 | Washington Irving - Presidents - 1857 - 590 pages
...justice to individuals, require this of me. General Convvay's merit as an officer, and his importance in this army, exist more in his own imagination than...maxim with him to leave no service of his own untold, uor to want anything which is to be obtained by importunity I would ask why the youngest brigadier... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1886 - 500 pages
...Washington knew him well. " His merit as an officer," wrote the Commander-in-chief, " and his importance in this army exist more in his own imagination than...to leave no service of his own untold, nor to want anything which is to be obtained by importunity." Conway thought Gates was the rising man, and he meant... | |
 | Thomas Francis Bayard - Caesar Rodney Monument (Dover, Del.) - 1889 - 82 pages
...campaigns through which they had passed. Washington once bitterly described Conway, saying "that it was a maxim with him to leave no service of his own untold, nor to want anything that could be obtained by importunity." To describe the troops from Delaware his language... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - Presidents - 1889 - 376 pages
...interesting a subject I must speak plainly. General Conway's merit then as an officer, and his importance in this army, exist more in his own imagination than in reality." This plain talk soon reached Conway, drove him at once into furious opposition, and caused him to impart... | |
 | George Washington - 1890 - 552 pages
...me. General Conway's merit, then, as an officer, and his importance in this army, exists more in his imagination, than in reality. For it is a maxim With...possesses, and only wish to have the matter taken up upon its true ground, after allowing him every thing that his warmest friends will contend for,... | |
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General Conway's merit as an officer, and his importance in this army, exist more in his own imagination than in reality. For it is a maxim with him to leave no service of his own untold, nor to want any thing which is to be obtained by importunity. 
