| John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 570 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... | |
| John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 574 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... | |
| Herman Melville - 1962 - 242 страници
...times in Robert Southey's Life of Nelson, Ch. 5, where Nelson is quoted as writing to the Admiralty in 1798: "Were I to die this moment, want of frigates...have suffered, and am suffering, for want of them." The swift-sailing frigates were the eyes and ears of the fleet. Melville's copy of the Life (New York,... | |
| 1904 - 802 страници
...duty is shown in his despatches. Thus, on 9th August, 1798, he writes to Lord Spencer : —“ Was I to die this moment ‘ want of frigates ‘ would...my heart. No words of mine can express what I have and am suffering for want of them.” And again, on 6th September, 1804, he says, in a letter to Sir... | |
| Lincoln P. Paine - 2000 - 292 страници
...line but, through a confusion of orders, no frigates, a situation that led him to dedare, “Frigates! Were I to die this moment, want of frigates would be found engraved on my heart!” Lacking these “eyes of the fleet,” he was unable to locate the French... | |
| Dean King, John B. Hattendorf, J. Worth Estes - 2000 - 532 страници
...cruising. "FRIGATES are the eyes of a fleet," said NELSON, who also stated in 1798, "Was I to die at this moment want of frigates would be found stamped on my heart." frigate bird A large, swift predatory bird of the genus Fregata, found near land in the tropical and... | |
| Edgar Vincent - 2003 - 654 страници
...Berry away on the 6th in Leander with his dispatches, but as he wrote at the time to Lord Spencer, 'Was I to die this moment, Want of Frigates would be found stamped on my heart.' 9 He could not send his duplicates overland to London via Naples and Vienna until his long-lost frigates,... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1814 - 788 страници
...hours. " Were I to die this moment," said he in his dispatches to the Admiralty, " want iiffrigates would be found stamped on my heart. No words, of mine can express what I have suffered, and am suH'enng, for want of them.'" Vol. ip 239. This is part of the price which the hero must pay for glory... | |
| 1919 - 978 страници
...which he shows how hampered his plans were by the neglect of the Home Government: ' Were I to die at this moment, want of frigates would be found stamped on my heart.' We feel sure that lovers of architecture will heartily approve the stipulation that it shall not be... | |
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