 I beg to inform your lordship, that the port of Toulon has never been blockaded by me : quite the reverse. Every opportunity has been offered the enemy to put to sea ; for it is there that we hope to realize the hopes and expectations of our country.  The Life of Nelson - Page 191by Robert Southey - 1813Full view - About this book
 | James Harrison (biographer of Nelson.) - 1806 - 522 pages
...lordship, that the port of Toulon has never been blockaded by me ; quite the reverse. Every opportunity has been offered the enemy to put to sea : for, it...realize the hopes and expectations of our country; and, I trust that they will not be disappointed. " Your lordship will judge of my feelings, upon seeing... | |
 | Child rearing - 1843 - 320 pages
...lordship, that the port of Toulon has never been blockaded 4)y me : quite the reverse. Every opportunity has been offered the enemy -to put to sea : for it...offence, so entirely and manifestly unintentional, doserved : but it arose, from that generous regard for the feelings as well as interests of ^11 who... | |
 | Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1846 - 560 pages
...Lordship that the Port of Toulon has never been blockaded by me : quite the reverse — every opportunity has been offered the Enemy to put to sea, for it is...realize the hopes and expectations of our Country, and I trust that they will not be disappointed. Your Lordship will judge of my feelings upon seeing... | |
 | 1847 - 202 pages
...port of Toulon has never been blockaded by me ; quite the reverse. Every opportunity has been afforded the enemy to put to sea, for it is there that we hope...realize the hopes and expectations of our country, and I trust that they will not be disappointed. " * " Do not think,'' he wrote to his old comrade,... | |
 | Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - 1849 - 708 pages
...Lordship, that the port of Toulon has never been blockaded by me ; quite the reverse—every opportunity has been offered the enemy to put to sea, for it is...realize the hopes and expectations of our country, and I trust that they will not be disappointed. Your Lordship will judge of my feelings upon seeing... | |
 | Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - 1849 - 710 pages
...Lordship, that the port of Toulon has never been blockaded by me ; quite the reverse — every opportunity has been offered the enemy to put to sea, for it is...realize the hopes and expectations of our country, and I trust that they will not be disappointed. Your Lordship will judge of my feelings upon seeing... | |
 | Joseph ALLEN (of Greenwich Hospital.) - 1853 - 290 pages
...lordship that the port of Toulon has never been blockaded by me ; quite the reverse,— every opportunity has been offered the enemy to put to sea, for it is there that w»hope to realize the hopes and expectations of our country, and I trust that they will not be disappointed.... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1861 - 622 pages
...lordship that the port of Toulon has never been blockaded by me ; quite the reverse. Every opportunity has been offered the enemy to put to sea ; for it...realize the hopes and expectations of our country, and I trust that they will not be disappointed." J On the 18th of January, 1805, the Toulon fleet came... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1877 - 410 pages
...lordship that the port of Toulon has never been blockaded by me — quite the reverse. Every opportunity has been offered the enemy to put to sea : for it is there that we hope to realise the hopes and expectations of our country." Nelson then remarked, that the junior flag officers... | |
 | Robert Southey - Admirals - 1878 - 306 pages
...lordship, that the port of Toulon has never been blockaded by me : quite the reverse. Every opportunity has been offered the enemy to put to sea ; for it...manifestly unintentional, deserved ; but it arose from 1803] Nelson as a Commander. 229 that generous regard for the feelings as well as interests of all... | |
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