 | 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... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount), Matthew Henry Barker - 1836 - 500 pages
...attracted 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...Lord Hood introduced me to him. There was something so irresistibly pleasing in his address and conversation, and an enthusiasm when speaking on professional... | |
 | John Campbell - 1841 - 604 pages
...for I had never seen anything like it before, nor could I imagine who he was, or what he came about. There was something irresistibly pleasing in his address...enthusiasm, when speaking on professional subjects, which showed that he was no common being." Nelson's manner to his midshipmen was extremely kind and... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount), Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Admirals - 1844 - 586 pages
...which particularly attracted my notice ; for I had never seen anything like it before, nor could I imagine who he was. nor what he came about. My doubts...pleasing in his address and conversation ; and an entbusiasm, when speaking on professional subjects, that showed he was no common being. Nelson after... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1845 - 970 pages
...appearance which positively attracted my notice, for 1 had never seen anything like it before, nor could I imagine who he was, nor what he came about ; my doubts...enthusiasm when speaking on professional subjects, that showed he was. no common being. Nelson after this went with us to the West Indies, and served under... | |
 | English essays - 1845 - 732 pages
...notice, for I h*J never seen anything like it before, cor could I imagine who he was, nor «oat be came about ; my doubts were however removed, when...enthusiasm when speaking on professional subjects, that showed he was no common being. Nelson after this went with us to the West Indies, and served under... | |
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... hair was tied in a stiff Hessian tail, of an extraordinary length; the old-fashioned flaps of his waistcoat added to the general quaintness of his figure, and produced an appearance which particularly attracted my notice ; for I had never seen anything... 
