 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 588 pages
...when I should be glad to receive your instructions; but I could wish you would bind me aa little aa possible; not from any opinion, I do assure you, of...dear Sir. " Yours, most affectionately, " CHARLES LBB." " PS I have just been speaking with General Heath, the strictness of whose instructions a good... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1835 - 582 pages
...pass the river, when I should be glad to receive your mstructions; but I could wish you would bind me as little as possible; not from any opinion, I do...Sir, " Yours, most affectionately, " CHARLES LEE." " P. 8. I have just been speaking with General Heath, the strictness of whose instructions a good deal... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1835 - 568 pages
...pass the river, when I should be glad to receive your mstructions; but I could wish you would bind me as little as possible; not from any opinion, I do...generals cannot have too great latitude, unless they arc very incompetent indeed. Adieu, my dear Sir, "Yours, most affectionately, "CHAALSSLEE." "PS I have... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1847 - 646 pages
...pass the river, when I should be glad to receive your instructions; but I could wish you would bind me as little as possible ; not from any opinion, I do..." Yours, most affectionately, " CHARLES LEE." " PS ,1 have just been speaking with General Heath, the strictness of whose instructions a good deal distresses... | |
 | Local history - 1873 - 520 pages
...your instructions ; but I could wish you would bind me as little as possible, not from any opinion, 1 do assure you, of my own parts, but from a persuasion...dear Sir. Yours, most affectionately, CHARLES LEE. His Excellency General Washington, Elizabeth-Town. PS I have just been speaking with General Heath,... | |
 | Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 1855 - 606 pages
...the river, when I should be glad to receive your instructions ; but I could wish you would bind me as little as possible ; not from any opinion, I do...latitude, unless they are very incompetent indeed." Lee had calculated upon meeting no further difficulty in obtaining men from Heath. He rode to that... | |
 | Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 1855 - 554 pages
...the river, when I should be glad to receive your instructions ; but I could wish you would bind me as little as possible ; not from any opinion, I do assure you, VOL. ii. — 29 of my own parts, but from a persuasion that detached generals cannot have too great... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1857 - 610 pages
...the river, when I should be glad to receive your instructions ; but I could wish you would bind me as little as possible ; not from any opinion, I do...latitude, unless they are very incompetent indeed." On the same day, seeing no escape from taking part in the impending hazards, Lee wrote to Bowdoin,*... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1857 - 612 pages
...the river, when I should be glad to receive your instructions ; but I could wish you would bind me as little as possible ; not from any opinion, I do...latitude, unless they are very incompetent indeed." On the same day, seeing no escape from taking part in the impending hazards, Lee wrote to Bowdoin,*... | |
 | George Henry Moore - Lee, Charles, 1731-1782 - 1860 - 202 pages
...days more, when he will be glad to have instructions ; but says also, " I could wish you would bind me as little as possible, not from any opinion, I do...latitude, unless they are very incompetent indeed." He added in a postscript " that he was a good deal distressed by the strictness of General Heath's... | |
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The day after to-morrow," added he, " we shall pass the river, when I should be glad to receive your instructions ; but I could wish you would bind me as little as possible ; not from any opinion, I do assure you, of my own parts, but from a persuasion... 
