The Life of NelsonJ. Murray, 1840 - 352 страници |
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... mind , which , during his whole career of labour and of glory , so eminently distin- guished him . When a mere child , he strayed a bird's - nesting from his grandmother's house in company with a cow - boy ; the dinner - hour elapsed ...
... mind , which , during his whole career of labour and of glory , so eminently distin- guished him . When a mere child , he strayed a bird's - nesting from his grandmother's house in company with a cow - boy ; the dinner - hour elapsed ...
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... mind , " he cried ; " do but let me get a blow at this devil with the but-- end of my musket , and we shall have him . " Capt . Lutwidge , however , seeing his danger , fired a gun , which had the desired effect of frightening the beast ...
... mind , " he cried ; " do but let me get a blow at this devil with the but-- end of my musket , and we shall have him . " Capt . Lutwidge , however , seeing his danger , fired a gun , which had the desired effect of frightening the beast ...
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... that I should never rise in my profession . My mind was staggered with a view of the difficulties I had to surmount , and the little interest I possessed . I could discover no means of reaching the object of 16 [ 1776 . LIFE OF NELSON .
... that I should never rise in my profession . My mind was staggered with a view of the difficulties I had to surmount , and the little interest I possessed . I could discover no means of reaching the object of 16 [ 1776 . LIFE OF NELSON .
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... mind's eye , which urged him onward to renown . The state of mind in which these feelings began , is what the mystics mean by their season of dark- ness and desertion . If the animal spirits fail , they represent it as an actual ...
... mind's eye , which urged him onward to renown . The state of mind in which these feelings began , is what the mystics mean by their season of dark- ness and desertion . If the animal spirits fail , they represent it as an actual ...
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... mind and personal exertions , prevented the loss of life which would otherwise have ensued . On the 11th of June , 1779 , he was made post into the Hinchinbrook , of twenty- eight guns , an enemy's merchant - man , sheathed with wood ...
... mind and personal exertions , prevented the loss of life which would otherwise have ensued . On the 11th of June , 1779 , he was made post into the Hinchinbrook , of twenty- eight guns , an enemy's merchant - man , sheathed with wood ...
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