The Life of NelsonAmerican book Company, 1895 - 304 страници |
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... took up the study of law . " I love study - devotedly I love it , " he wrote an old friend in 1799 ; “ but in legal studies it is only the subtlety of the mind that is exercised . I am not indolent - I loathe in- dolence ; but , indeed ...
... took up the study of law . " I love study - devotedly I love it , " he wrote an old friend in 1799 ; “ but in legal studies it is only the subtlety of the mind that is exercised . I am not indolent - I loathe in- dolence ; but , indeed ...
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... took them , " he said , " because every other boy was afraid . ” Early on a cold and dark spring morning Mr. Nelson's servant arrived at this school at North Walsham with the expected sum- mons for Horatio to join his ship . The parting ...
... took them , " he said , " because every other boy was afraid . ” Early on a cold and dark spring morning Mr. Nelson's servant arrived at this school at North Walsham with the expected sum- mons for Horatio to join his ship . The parting ...
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... took him home and gave him some refreshments . When he got on board , Captain Suck- ling was not in the ship , nor had any person been apprised of the boy's coming . He paced the deck the whole remainder of the day , without being ...
... took him home and gave him some refreshments . When he got on board , Captain Suck- ling was not in the ship , nor had any person been apprised of the boy's coming . He paced the deck the whole remainder of the day , without being ...
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... took the best means of reconciling him to it . He held it out as a reward , that if he attended well to his navigation he should go in the cutter3 and decked longboat which were attached to the commanding officer's ship at Chatham ...
... took the best means of reconciling him to it . He held it out as a reward , that if he attended well to his navigation he should go in the cutter3 and decked longboat which were attached to the commanding officer's ship at Chatham ...
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... took the ground ; for , in that case , the ships must instantly have been crushed or overset . On the 7th of August they began to haul the boats over the ice , Nelson having command of the four - oared cutter . The men be- haved ...
... took the ground ; for , in that case , the ships must instantly have been crushed or overset . On the 7th of August they began to haul the boats over the ice , Nelson having command of the four - oared cutter . The men be- haved ...
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Страница 301 - Speak, father!" once again he cried, "If I may yet be gone!" And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on.
Страница 300 - THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead.
Страница 303 - Again! again! again! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane, To our cheering sent us back; Their shots along the deep slowly boom — Then ceased — and all is wail, As they strike the shatter'd sail; Or, in conflagration pale, Light the gloom.
Страница 291 - The most triumphant death is that of the martyr; the most awful that of the martyred patriot; the most splendid that of the hero in the hour of victory: and if the chariot and the horses of fire had been vouchsafed for Nelson's translation, he could scarcely have departed in a brighter blaze of glory.
Страница 267 - At half-past Ten drove from dear, dear Merton, where I left all which I hold dear in this World, to go to serve my King and Country. May the Great God whom I adore enable me to fulfil the expectations of my Country, and if it is His good pleasure that I should return, my thanks will never cease being offered up to the Throne of His Mercy. If it is His good providence to cut short my days upon Earth, I bow with the greatest submission, relying that He will protect those so dear to me, that I may leave...
Страница 281 - ... brave officers, perhaps, at this moment thought of Nelson with gratitude, for a circumstance which had occurred on the preceding day. Admiral Collingwood, with some of the captains, having gone on board the Victory, to receive instructions, Nelson inquired of him, where his captain was ? and was told, in reply, that they were not upon good terms with each other.
Страница 286 - Hardy stood over him in silence for a moment or two, then knelt again and kissed his forehead. " Who is that ? " said Nelson; and being informed, he replied,
Страница 276 - His plan of defense was as well conceived, and as original, as the plan of attack. He formed the fleet in a double line, every alternate ship being about a cable's length to windward of her second ahead and astern. Nelson, certain of a triumphant issue to the day, asked Blackwood what he should consider as a victory. That officer answered, that, considering the handsome way in which...
Страница 291 - ... greatest of our own, and of all former times, was scarcely taken into the account of grief. So perfectly indeed had he performed his part, that the maritime war, after the battle of Trafalgar, was considered at an end : the fleets of the enemy were not merely defeated, but destroyed : new navies must be built, and a new race of seamen reared for them, before the possibility of their invading our shores could again be contemplated.
Страница 213 - You know, Foley, I have only one eye — I have a right to be blind sometimes...