 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 578 pages
...build his greatness upon his country's ruin. General Lee's publication in Dunlap's Gazette of the 3d, and I have seen no other, puts me in a disagreeable situation.* I have neither the leisure nor inclination to enter the lists with him in a newspaper ; and so far as his production... | |
 | Alexander Graydon - United States - 1846 - 530 pages
...Gazette of the 3d, and I have seen no other, puts me in a disagreeable situation.* I have neither the leisure nor inclination to enter the lists with him...insinuations in others, that have not the smallest foundations in truth, not to attempt a refutation is a tacit acknowledgment of the justice of the assertions;... | |
 | Alexander Graydon - 1846 - 532 pages
...edited by Mr. SPARKS : — APPENDIX. 465 " General Lee's publication in Dunlap's Gazette of the 3d, and I have seen no other, puts me in a disagreeable situation.* I have neither the leisure nor inclination to enter the lists with him in a newspaper; and so far as his production... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1856 - 516 pages
...calculated to injure Washington. " I have neither the leisure nor inclination," observes the latter, " to enter the lists with him in a newspaper ; and so...personality, I can and do from my inmost soul despise it. * * * * It became a part of General Lee's plan, from the moment of his arrest, though it was an event... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1861 - 509 pages
...calculated to injure Washington. " I have neither the leisure nor inclination," observes the latter, " to enter the lists with him in a newspaper ; and so...personality, I -can and do from my inmost soul despise it. * * * * It became a part of General Lee's plan, from the moment of his arrest, though it was an event... | |
 | New York (State) - 1874 - 518 pages
...REED. Middlebrook, 12 December, 1778. Extract. General Lee's publication in Dunlap's Gazette of the 3d inst., (and I have seen no other,) puts me in a disagreeable...personality, I can and do from my inmost soul despise it VOL. III.— 18 but when he has most barefacedly misrepresented facts in some places, and thrown out... | |
 | Local history - 1874 - 518 pages
...REED. Middlebrook, 12 December, 1778. Extract. General Lae's publication in Dunlap's Gazette of the 3d inst., (and I have seen no other,) puts me in a disagreeable...leisure nor inclination to enter the lists with him ill a newspaper : and so far as his production points to personality, I can and do from my inmost soul... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 618 pages
...calculated to injure Washington. " I have neither the leisure nor inclination," observes the latter, "to enter the lists with him in a newspaper ; and...personality, I can and do from my inmost soul despise it . . . . It became a part of General Lee's plan, from the moment of his arrest, though it was an event... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1890 - 540 pages
...persuaded."—Washington to Reed, 27 November, 1778. General Lee's publication in Dunlap's Gazette of the 3d inst., (and I have seen no other,) puts me in a disagreeable situation. 1 I have neither the leisure nor inclination to enter the lists with him in a newspaper ; and so far... | |
 | George Washington - 1890 - 572 pages
...persuaded."—Washington to Reed, 27 November. 1778. General Lee's publication in Dunlap's Gazette of the 3d inst., (and I have seen no other,) puts me in a disagreeable situation.1 I have neither the leisure nor inclination to enter the lists with him in a newspaper ;... | |
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He published a long article in the newspapers relative to the trial and to the affair at Monmouth, calculated to injure Washington. "I have neither the leisure nor inclination," observes the latter, "to enter the lists with him in a newspaper; and so... 
