| Washington Irving - 1857 - 544 Seiten
...opportunity of contradicting the first, and of assuring you that I have not composed the latter. But, by the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I...and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, though death was levelling my companions on every side of me ! "We have been most scandalously beaten... | |
| 1857 - 498 Seiten
...himself for judgment and bravery. After a severe engagement with the French, he wrote to his brother, — "By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence,...beyond all human probability or expectation ; for 1 had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet I remained unhurt, although Death... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1857 - 702 Seiten
...under him. and four bullets passed through his coat Writing of this to his brother, he remarked, " By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I...protected beyond all human probability or expectation, * * * although death was leveling my companions on every side." * Note 1, pago 1G8. See picture on... | |
| John Fanning Watson - 1857 - 686 Seiten
...beeu killed, as had been before reported in a circumstantial account. He added, "By the all powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation, while death was levelling my companions on every side." Such remarkable perils, and such acknowledgments... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1858 - 944 Seiten
...By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I linvo been protected beyond all human probabilif. or expectation ; for I had four bullets through my coat and two horses shot under me, yet I unhnrr. though death was le ••f bis of я kl but which, un the sin. ¡¡k. Thi,i hand of India!... | |
| E. Cecil - 1859 - 292 Seiten
...opportunity of contradicting the first, and of assuring you that I have not yet composed the latter. But, by the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I...and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, though death was levelling my companions on every side of me. We have been most scandalously beaten... | |
| Washington Irving - 1859 - 498 Seiten
...opportunity of contradicting the first, and of assuring you that I have not composed the latter. But, by the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I...and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, though death was levelling my companions on every side of me! in such cases to exaggerate, had represented... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1859 - 674 Seiten
...under him, and four bullets passed through his coat. Writing of this to his brother, -fce remarked, " By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I...protected beyond all human probability or expectation, * * * although death was leveling my companions on every side." 6 Note 1, page 168. See picture on... | |
| Charles Campbell - 1860 - 766 Seiten
...Providence could have saved him from the fate of all around him." Washington, writing to his brother, said: "By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence I...death was levelling my companions on every side." More than half of the army were killed or wounded, two-thirds of them, according to Washington's conjecture,... | |
| Charles Campbell - 1860 - 764 Seiten
...dispensations of Providence I have been pro* Bancroft, iv. 189. f Braddock's Expedition, 231. tected beyond all human probability or expectation, for I...death was levelling my companions on every side." More than half of the army were killed or wounded, two-thirds of them, according to Washington's conjecture,... | |
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