| James Harrison (biographer of Nelson.) - 1806 - 430 страници
...Spencer, as First Lord of the Admiralty, with the following letter. " Mouth of the Nile, " MY LORD, 9th August 1798. " WERE I to die this moment, want of...Mutine brig. I cannot yet send off Captain Capel, which I am very anxious to do: for, as an accident may happen to Captain Berry, it is of some importance,... | |
| Robert Southey - 1813 - 276 страници
...whole in a few hours. " Were I to " die this moment," said he in his despatchesto the admiralty, " want of frigates " would be found stamped on my heart!...have suffered, and am suffering, for want " of them." He had also to bear up against great bodily suffering: the blow had so shaken his head, that from its... | |
| Robert Southey - 1813 - 274 страници
...in a few hours. " Were I to " die this moment," said he \u Vvs, &s.spatchesto the admiralty, " rcant of frigates " would be found stamped on my heart!...have suffered, and am suffering, for want " of them." He had also to bear up against great bodily suffering: the blow had so shaken his head, that from its... | |
| 1813 - 550 страници
...whole in a few hours. ' "Were I to die this moment,' said he iu his despatches to the admiralty, 'won/ of frigates would be found stamped on my heart! No words of mine can express what I have suffered; aud am suffering, for want of them. 1 " After this signal triumph over the French, a profusion of preset:;;,... | |
| Robert Southey - 1827 - 284 страници
...whole in a few hours. " Were I to " die this moment," said 4ie in his despatches to the admiralty, " want of frigates " would be found stamped on my heart!...have suffered, and am suffering, for want " of them." He had also to bear up against n 2 great bodily suffering: the blow had so shaken his head, that from... | |
| Robert Southey - 1830 - 354 страници
...the whole in a few hours. "Were I to die this moment," said he, in his despatches to the Admiralty, " want of frigates would be found stamped on my heart!...have suffered, and am suffering, for want of them." He had also to bear up against great bodily suffering: the blow had so shaken his head, that from its... | |
| Robert Southey - 1835 - 342 страници
...whole in a few hours. " Were I to die this moment," said he, in his despatches to the Admiralty, " -want of frigates' would be found stamped on my heart!...have suffered, and am suffering, for want of them." He had also to bear up against great bodily suffering : the blow had so shaken his head, that from... | |
| Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount), Matthew Henry Barker - 1836 - 500 страници
...Admiralty, written before he was joined by his frigates, he makes use of this emphatic expression: "Were I to die this moment, want of frigates would...have suffered and am suffering for want of them." The Mutine being at length ready, these letters were despatched by her on the 16 th of August. By the... | |
| 1836 - 884 страници
...the whole in a few hours. ' Were I to die this moment,' said he in his dispatches to the admiralty, ' want of frigates would be found stamped on my heart...have suffered, and am suffering, for want of them.' • • • » » " Nelson was now at the summit of his glory : congratulations, rewards, and honours... | |
| 1838 - 120 страници
...When the coffin was completed, Captain Hallowell sent it to NelwB, with the following letter,— <if frigates would be found stamped on my heart. No words of mine canespré« »hat I liavr suffered, nnd am suffering, for the want of them." "Sir, " I have taken the... | |
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