 | 1805 - 456 páginas
...individual in it; and when I came to explain to them my plan of attack, it was like an electric shock— some shed tears, all approved. — It was new ; it...it was simple ; and from admirals downwards it was repeated—it must succeed, if ever they will allow us to get at them." Ou the tith October he wrote... | |
 | James Harrison (biographer of Nelson.) - 1806 - 522 páginas
...individual in it; and, when " I came to explain to them the Nelson touch, it " was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all " approved. It was new, it was...will " allow us to get at them ! You are, my lord, sur" rounded by friends whorayou inspire with confi" dence." — " Some," adds his lordship, " may... | |
 | William Hamilton Drummond - 1806 - 142 páginas
...individual in it; and when I came to explain to them my plan of attack, it was like an electric shock — some shed tears, all approved. — It was new; it...succeed, if ever they will allow us to get at them." For illustration of the lines, which immediately follow those which introduced this note, it may not... | |
 | 1814 - 606 páginas
...them the ffehon touch, it was like an electric shock. Some- shed tears, all approved — " It wa» " new, it was singular, it was simple! " and, from Admirals...repeated — " It must succeed, if ever they will allow •* ns to get at them ! You are, my Lord, surrounded by friends " whom you inspire with confidence.... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount), Matthew Henry Barker - 1836 - 500 páginas
...individual in it : and when I came to explain to them the Nelson touch, it was like an electric shock. ' It was new, it was singular, it was simple,' and from...succeed, if ever they will allow us to get at them." " In another letter he described his reception as causing the sweetest sensation of his life. " The... | |
 | Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1846 - 864 páginas
...singular — it was simple !'; and, froi Admirais downwards, it was repeated — ' It must succeed, ever they will allow us to get at them ! You are, my Lore surrounded by friends whom you inspire with confidence Some may be Judas's ; but the majority... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1847 - 544 páginas
...individual in it : and when I came to explain to them the Nelson touch, it was like an electric shock : some shed tears — all approved. ' It was new —...surrounded by friends whom you inspire with confidence." He writes strongly to the Admiralty, to send him frigates and sloops, which he calls the eyes of the... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 408 páginas
..." I came to explain to the commanders of the fleet the Nelson touch, it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears ; all approved. It was new, it was...surrounded by friends whom you inspire with confidence.' " On the i9th Nelson learned that his hope had been fulfilled, and that the combined fleet had put... | |
 | United States Naval Institute - 1887 - 824 páginas
...I came to explain to them my ck," he wrote to an intimate friend, "it was like an electric shock : tears ; all approved. It was new, it was singular, it was simple, dmirals downwards it was repeated, 'It must succeed, if ever they us to get at them.'" rood said the... | |
 | George Lathom Browne - 1891 - 576 páginas
...individual in it ; and when I came to explain to them the ' Nelson touch' it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved — ' it was new — it was singular — it was simple ; ' and from the admiral downwards it was repeated, ' It must succeed, if they will allow us to get at them ! You... | |
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It was new — it was singular — it was simple!" and, from Admirals downwards, it was repeated — "It must succeed, if ever they will allow us to get at them! You are, my Lord, surrounded by friends whom you inspire with confidence. 
