 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...you are right. You have confidence in yourself, which is a valuable, if not indispensable, quality. You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm; but I think that during General Burnside's command of the army you have taken counsel of your ambition and thwarted... | |
 | American essays - 1917 - 996 pages
...satisfied with you. You have confidence in yourself, which is a valuable, if not an indispensable, quality. You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm; but I think that during your predecessor's command, you have taken counsel of your ambition, and thwarted him as... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1879 - 218 pages
...arc right. You have confidence in yourself — which is a valuable, if not an indispensable, quality. You are ambitious — which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm; but I think that, during General Burnside's command of the army, you have taken counsel of your ambition and thwarted... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1879 - 228 pages
...arc right. You have confidence in yourself — which is a valuable, if not an indispensable, quality. You are ambitious — which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm ; but I think that, during General Burnside's command of the army, you have taken counsel of your ambition and thwarted... | |
 | John William Jones - United States - 1879 - 402 pages
...you arc right. You have confidence in yourself, which is a valuable if not an indispensable quality. You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm. But I think that during General Burnside's command of the army you have taken counsel of your ambition and thwarted... | |
 | Theodore Ayrault Dodge - History - 1881 - 294 pages
...are right. You have confidence in yourself ; which is a valuable, if not an indispensable, quality. You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm ; but I think that during Gen. Burnside's command of the army, you have taken counsel of your ambition, and thwarted... | |
 | Henry Edwin Tremain - 1881 - 36 pages
...you are right. You have confidence in yourself, which is a valuable, if not an indispensable quality. You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm; but I think that during GENERAL BURNSIDE'S command of the Army you have taken counsel of your ambition, and thwarted... | |
 | Third Army Corps Union, John Cleveland Robinson - 1881 - 48 pages
...you are right. You have confidence in yourself, which is a valuable, if not an indispensable quality. You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm ; but I think that during General Burnside's command of the Army you have taken counsel of your ambition, and thwarted... | |
 | Benjamin F. Cook - Massachusetts - 1882 - 194 pages
...are right. You have confidence in yourself, which is a valuable, if not an indispensable, quality. You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm; but I think, that, during Gen. Burnside's command of the army, you have taken counsel of your ambition, and thwarted... | |
 | Samuel Penniman Bates - Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863 - 1882 - 280 pages
...you are right. You have confidence in yourself, which is a valuable, if not an indispensable quality. You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm. But I think that during General Burnside's command of the army, you have taken counsel of your ambition, and thwarted... | |
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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. 
