 | Louise Creighton - 1883 - 382 Seiten
...wrote, "a burden to my friends and useless to my country;" and again he wrote, " A left-handed admiral will never again be considered as useful; therefore,...and make room for a sounder man to serve the State." When he reached England he was treated with great honour. But he had to go through three months of... | |
 | Pall Mall Gazette - 1891 - 72 Seiten
...to Sir John Jervis, afterwards Earl St. Vincent:— "I hope," he writes, "you will be able to give me a frigate to convey the remains of my carcass to England. . . . You will excuse my scrawl, considering it is my first attempt." In another letter (2331), seven... | |
 | London (England). Naval exhibition - 1891 - 656 Seiten
...St. Vincent, and bequeathed by him to Admiral Sir William Parker. ' ' I hope you will be able to give me a frigate to convey the remains of my carcass to England." " You will excuse my scrawl, considering it is my first attempt." Lent by Sir William Parker, Bart.... | |
 | John Knox Laughton - 1895 - 264 Seiten
...The Theseus joined the Admiral off Cadiz on August 16th, when Nelson wrote : "A lefthanded admiral will never again be considered as useful, therefore...very humble cottage the better, and make room for a better man to serve the State " ; and the next day the Seahorse sailed for Spit head, where she anchored... | |
 | John Knox Laughton - 1896 - 442 Seiten
...Paris and pay you my respects. If the Emerald has joined, you know my wishes. A left-handed admiral will never again be considered as useful ; therefore...very humble cottage the better, and make room for a better man to serve the State. But, whatever be my lot, believe me, with the most sincere affection,... | |
 | John Knox Laughton - 1900 - 326 Seiten
...The Theseus joined the Admiral off Cadiz on August 16th, when Nelson wrote : "A lefthanded admiral will never again be considered as useful, therefore...very humble cottage the better, and make room for a better man to serve the State " ; and the next day the Seahorse sailed for Spithead, where she anchored... | |
 | Sophia Penn Page Shaler - 1906 - 376 Seiten
...friends and a nuisance to my country." And in a subsequent letter : " A lefthanded Admiral will never be considered as useful; therefore the sooner I get...and make room for a sounder man to serve the state." Unsuccessful in his search for the French fleet, which had sailed from Toulon, Nelson went back to... | |
 | Esther Meynell - 1913 - 362 Seiten
...world ; I go hence, and am no more seen." He declares a few days later that a " left-handed Admiral will never again be considered as useful, therefore...very humble cottage the better, and make room for a better man to serve the State." It seemed as if in the very expansion of his powers he was smitten... | |
 | John Knox Laughton - 1919 - 260 Seiten
...The Theseus joined the Admiral off Cadiz on August 16th, when Nelson wrote : " A lefthanded admiral will never again be considered as useful, therefore...very humble cottage the better, and make room for a better man to serve the State " ; and the next day the Seahorse sailed for Spithead, where she anchored... | |
 | Colin White - 2002 - 380 Seiten
...the blow to his own future prospects. As he wrote in a letter to Jervis, '. . . a left handed admiral will never again be considered as useful therefore...very humble cottage the better and make room for a better man to serve the state.'27 To make matters worse, the casualties included Lieutenant John Whitehead,... | |
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A left-handed admiral,' he said in a subsequent letter, ' will never again be considered as useful ; therefore the sooner I get to a very humble cottage the better, and make room for a sounder man to serve the state. 
