 | Robert Southey - 1813 - 306 σελίδες
...cannot " enter into details which may explain the « motives that actuated my conduct. My " principle is, to assist in driving the French *•' to the devil,...am " fitter to do the action than to describe it." He then added, that he would take care of Minorca. In expelling the French from Naples, Nelson had,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1830 - 354 σελίδες
...hand, cannot enter into details which may explain the motives that actuated my conduct. My principle is, to assist in driving the French to the devil,...I am fitter to do the action than to describe it." He then added, that he would take care of Minorca. In expelling the French from Naples, Nelson had,... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount), Matthew Henry Barker - 1836 - 500 σελίδες
...hand, cannot enter into the details which may explain the motives that actuate my conduct. My principle is — to assist in driving the French to the devil,...line are to sail this evening for Minorca, which I shall take care of." A few days before. Nelson had despatched Admiral Duckworth to that island, with... | |
 | 1838 - 120 σελίδες
...wish to have every subject of duty detailed by those under his command. My principle, my dear lord, ia to assist in driving the French to the devil, and...restored, two more ships of the line are to sail this evenmg for Minorca, which I will take care of." . Having made every requisite arrangement for the welfare... | |
 | 1843 - 320 σελίδες
...hand, cannot enter into details which may explain the motives thstt actuated my conduct. My principle is, to assist in driving the French to the devil,...and happiness to mankind. I feel that I am fitter tg dp the action than to describe it." He then added, that he would take care of Minorca. lii expelling... | |
 | Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1845 - 602 σελίδες
...certainly, from only having a left hand, cannot enter into details which may explain the motives which actuate my conduct, and which may be necessary for...in restoring peace and happiness to mankind. I feel I am fitter to do the action than to describe it ; therefore, briefly, all the French being forced... | |
 | Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1845 - 594 σελίδες
...certainly, from only having a left hand, cannot enter into details which may explain the motives which actuate my conduct, and which may be necessary for...in restoring peace and happiness to mankind. I feel I am fitter to do the action than to describe it ; therefore, briefly, all the French being forced... | |
 | Joseph ALLEN (of Greenwich Hospital.) - 1853 - 290 σελίδες
...hand I cannot enter into details which may explain the motives that actuated my conduct. My prmciple is to assist in driving the French to the devil, and in restoring peace and happmess to mankind." The censure of the Admiralty affected him much. " Our dear great Earl of St.... | |
 | 1882 - 972 σελίδες
...Lord Nelson, who in buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. " My principle," said Nelson, on one occasion, "is to assist in driving the French to the devil, and in restoring peace and happiness to mankind." Whether he succeeded as regards the former, we are not in a position to state ; but peace and happiness,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 330 σελίδες
...Andrew Doria, " It seemed as if the sea stood in awe of this man." And a kindred genius, Nelson, said, " I feel that I am fitter to do the action than to describe it." Therefore I will say that another trait of greatness is facility. This necessity of resting on the real, of speaking... | |
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I certainly, from having only a left hand, cannot enter into details which may explain the motives that actuated my conduct. My principle is, to assist in driving the French to the devil, and in restoring peace and happiness to mankind. I feel that I... 
