| Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount), Matthew Henry Barker - 1836 - 500 páginas
...his command in the Mediterranean. His hour of rising was four or five o'clock, and of going to rest about ten. Breakfast was never later than six, and...watch to invite the little fellows to breakfast with Ifim, when relieved. At table with them, he would enter into their boyish jokes, and be the most youthful... | |
| Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1845 - 594 páginas
...his command in the Mediterranean. His hour of rising was four or five o'clock, and of going to rest about ten ; breakfast was never later than six, and...A midshipman or two were always of the party ; and 1 have known him send during the middle watch to invite the little fellows to breakfast with him, when... | |
| 1847 - 202 páginas
...his command in the Mediterranean. His hour of rising was four or five o'clock, and of going to rest about ten ; breakfast was never later than six, and...two were always of the party ; and I have known him during the middle watch to invite the little fellows to breakfast with him when relieved. At table... | |
| Joseph ALLEN (of Greenwich Hospital.) - 1853 - 290 páginas
...Nelson's habits at this period : — " His hour of rising was four or five o'clock, and of going to rest about ten ; breakfast was never later than six ; and...and be the most youthful of the party. At dinner he had every officer of the ship in turn, and was both a polite and hospitable host. The whole ordinary... | |
| Robert Southey - 1890 - 424 páginas
...26). Colonel Stewart, in his narrative of the Baltic expedition, tells us that at Nelson's breakfasts "a midshipman or two were always of the party ; and...boyish jokes, and be the most youthful of the party." In August, 1801, he attended the funeral of two young midshipmen killed in the attack upon the French... | |
| George Lathom Browne - 1891 - 576 páginas
...393, note. 3 Colonel Stewart's narrative. 18o1.] HIS MANAGEMENT OF HIS FLEET. 261 generally nearer five o'clock. A midshipman or two were always of the...when relieved. At table with them he would enter into all their boyish tricks, and be the most youthful of the party. At dinner he invariably had every officer... | |
| Robert Southey - 1892 - 428 páginas
...26). Colonel Stewart, in his narrative of the Baltic expedition, tells us that at Nelson's breakfasts "a midshipman or two were always of the party; and...boyish jokes, and be the most youthful of the party." In August, 1801, he attended the funeral of two young midshipmen killed in the attack upon the French... | |
| John Knox Laughton - 1895 - 264 páginas
...of stores, Stewart continued : " His hour of rising was four or five o'clock, and of going to rest about ten ; breakfast was never later than six, and...during the middle watch to invite the little fellows to hreakfast with him when relieved. At table with them, he would enter into their boyish jokes, and be... | |
| Robert Southey - 1896 - 376 páginas
...account of his personal habits : " His hour of rising was four or five o'clock, and of going to rest about ten ; breakfast was never later than six, and...and I have known him send during the middle watch (from 2 to 4 AM), to invite the little fellows to breakfast with him when relieved. At table with them,... | |
| Robert Southey - 1896 - 354 páginas
...account of his personal habits : " His hour of rising was four or five o'clock, and of going to rest about ten ; breakfast was never later than six, and...and I have known him send during the middle watch (from 2 to 4 AM), to invite the little fellows to breakfast with him when relieved. At table with them,... | |
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