The Life of Nelson, Band 1John Murray, 1814 - 288 Seiten |
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... fire to her while stealing rum out of the after - hold . Her crew were leaping into the water , when Nelson came up in his boats , made them throw their powder over- board , and point their guns upward : and , by his presence of mind ...
... fire to her while stealing rum out of the after - hold . Her crew were leaping into the water , when Nelson came up in his boats , made them throw their powder over- board , and point their guns upward : and , by his presence of mind ...
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... fire to the villages , and hung all the most able and active men who fell into their hands . A war of this kind may be carried on with suc- cess against a country so small and so thinly peopled as Corsica . Having reduced the island to ...
... fire to the villages , and hung all the most able and active men who fell into their hands . A war of this kind may be carried on with suc- cess against a country so small and so thinly peopled as Corsica . Having reduced the island to ...
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... that part of the wall at which the guns were pointed . The Corsicans stopt : but Gaffori stood at their head , and ordered them to continue the fire . Providentially the child escaped , and H 2 1794 99 LIFE OF NELSON .
... that part of the wall at which the guns were pointed . The Corsicans stopt : but Gaffori stood at their head , and ordered them to continue the fire . Providentially the child escaped , and H 2 1794 99 LIFE OF NELSON .
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Robert Southey. continue the fire . Providentially the child escaped , and lived to relate , with becoming feeling , a fact so honourable to his father . That father conducted the affairs of the island till 1753 , when he was ...
Robert Southey. continue the fire . Providentially the child escaped , and lived to relate , with becoming feeling , a fact so honourable to his father . That father conducted the affairs of the island till 1753 , when he was ...
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... fire be- fore he touched her stern ; but seeing how impossible it was that he should be sup- ported , and how certainly the Agamemnon must be severely cut up , if her masts were disabled , he altered his plan according to the occasion ...
... fire be- fore he touched her stern ; but seeing how impossible it was that he should be sup- ported , and how certainly the Agamemnon must be severely cut up , if her masts were disabled , he altered his plan according to the occasion ...
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Seite 87 - THERE are three things, young gentleman," said Nelson to one of his Midshipmen, "which you are constantly to bear in mind. First, you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king ; and, thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman as you do the devil.
Seite 69 - ... public good. Duty is the great business of a sea officer : all private considerations must give way to it, however painful.
Seite 142 - i» " slow beyond all description ; and I begin *' to think that the emperor is anxious to " touch another four millions of English *' money. As for the German generals, " war is their trade, and peace is ruin to " them ; therefore we cannot expect that " they should have any wish to finish the
Seite 234 - Nor would he suffer his own wound to be examined till every man who had been previously wounded was properly attended to. Fully believing that the wound was mortal, and that he was about to die, as he had ever desired, in battle and in victory, he called the chaplain, and desired him to deliver what he supposed to be his dying remembrance to Lady Nelson; he...
Seite 238 - A port -fire also fell into the main-royal of the Alexander ; the fire which it occasioned was speedily extinguished. Captain Ball had provided, as far as human foresight could provide, against any such danger. All the shrouds and sails of his...
Seite 230 - Captain Peyton in the Defence took his station ahead of the Minotaur, and engaged the Franklin, the sixth in the line, by which judicious movement the British line remained unbroken. The Majestic...
Seite 238 - ... by an earthquake : such an event would be felt like a miracle ; but no incident in war, produced by human means, has ever equalled the sublimity of this co-instantaneous pause, and all its circumstances. About seventy of the Orient's crew were saved by the English boats. Among the many hundreds who perished were the commodore, Casa-Bianca, and his son, a brave boy, only ten years old. They were seen floating on a shattered mast when the ship blew up.
Seite 233 - Berry caught him in his arms as he was falling. The great effusion of blood occasioned an apprehension that the wound was mortal ; Nelson himself thought so. A large flap of the skin of the forehead, cut from the bone, had fallen over one eye, and the other being blind, he was in total darkness.
Seite 234 - ... eye ; and, the other being blind, he was in total darkness. When he was carried down, the surgeon, in the midst of a scene scarcely to be conceived by those who have never seen a cockpit in time of action, and the heroism which is displayed amid its horrors — with a natural but pardonable eagerness, quitted the poor fellow then under his hands, that he might instantly attend the Admiral. " No ! " said Nelson, " I will take my turn with my brave fellows.
Seite 235 - The chaplain was then sent for ; but, before he came, Nelson, with his characteristic eagerness, took the pen, and contrived to trace a few words, marking his devout sense of the success which had already been obtained.