| 1810 - 492 pages
...notice; for I had never seen any thing like it before, nor could I imagine who he was, nor what he ca;ne about. My doubts were however, removed, when lord...enthusiasm when speaking on professional subjects, tllat showed he-was no common being. Nelson after this went with us to the West-Indies, and served... | |
| Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1810 - 462 pages
...seen any thing like it before, nor could I imagine who he was, nor what he came about. There was a something irresistibly pleasing in his address and...enthusiasm when speaking on professional subjects which showed that he was no common being." ':Lord Hood, who iwi been intimately acquainted \viti> captain... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 494 pages
...highness, after a description, rather ludicrous, of his dress and manner, said, that even nt this time there was something irresistibly pleasing in his address...enthusiasm, when speaking on professional subjects, which shewed that he was no common being. In November, captain Nelson sailed with sir Samuel Hood to... | |
| Biography - 1815 - 488 pages
...h'ghness, after a description, rather ludicrous, of his dress and manner, said, that even at this time there was something irresistibly pleasing in his address...enthusiasm, when speaking on professional subjects, which shewed that he was no common being. In November, captain Nelson sailed with sir Samuel Hood to... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...like it before, nor could I imagine who he was, or what he came about. There was a something, however, irresistibly pleasing in his address and conversation...enthusiasm, when speaking on professional subjects, which showed that he was no common being." was then appointed to the Boreas, 28 guns, going tb the... | |
| John Watkins - Great Britain - 1832 - 800 pages
...notice, for I had never seen any thing like it before, nor could I imagine who he was, nor what he came about. My doubts were, however, removed, when...enthusiasm, when speaking on professional subjects, that shewed he was no common being. Nelson, after this, went with us to the West Indies, and served under... | |
| Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount), Matthew Henry Barker - 1836 - 500 pages
...my notice, for I had never seen any thing like it before, nor could I imagine who he was or what he came about. My doubts were, however, removed when...Lord Hood introduced me to him. There was something so irresistibly pleasing in his address and conversation, and an enthusiasm when speaking on professional... | |
| Robert Huish - 1837 - 806 pages
...notice, for I had never seen any thing like it before, nor could 1 imagine who he was, nor what he came about. My doubts were, however, removed when...enthusiasm, when speaking on professional subjects, that shewed he was no common being. Nelson, after this, went with us to the West Indies, and served under... | |
| George Newenham Wright, John Watkins - Great Britain - 1837 - 972 pages
...notice, for I had never seen any thing like it before, nor could I imagine who he was, nor what he came about. My doubts were, however, removed, when...enthusiasm, when speaking on professional subjects, that shewed he was no common being. Nelson, after this, went with us to the West Indies, and served under... | |
| George Newenham Wright, John Watkins - Great Britain - 1837 - 954 pages
...notice, for I had never seen any thing like it before, nor could I imagine who he was, nor what he came about. My doubts were, however, removed, when...enthusiasm, when speaking on professional subjects, that shewed he was no common being. Nelson, after this, went with us to the West Indies, and served under... | |
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