 Honours know in general that there was much baseness of spirit, not among the merchantmen only, but many of the State's ships, and therefore I make it my humble request that your Honours would be pleased to send down some gentlemen to take an impartial...  Robert Blake, admiral and general at sea - Page 199by William Hepworth Dixon - 1852 - 366 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1833 - 646 pages
...God's providence) we now are. " ' In this account, I am bound to let your honours to know in general, that there was much baseness of spirit, not among the merchant-men only, but many of the State's ships; and, therefore, I make it my earnest request, that your honours would be... | |
 | Granville Penn - 1833 - 618 pages
...God's providence) we now are. " In this account, I am bound to let your honours to know in general, that there was much baseness of spirit, not among the merchant-men only, but many of the State's ships ; and, therefore, I make it my earnest request, that your honours would be... | |
 | Granville Penn - Admirals - 1833 - 614 pages
...God's providence) we now are. " In this account, I am bound to let your honours to know in general, that there was much baseness of spirit, not among the merchant-men only, but many of the State's ships ; and, therefore, I make it my earnest request, that your honours would be... | |
 | François Guizot - Great Britain - 1854 - 426 pages
...and sorrowful disinterestedness. "I am bound," he wrote to the Council of State, " to let your honors know that there ,was much baseness of spirit, not...And therefore I make it my earnest request that your honors would be pleased to send down some gentlemen to take" an impartial and strict examination of... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - Great Britain - 1867 - 538 pages
...battle, Blake thus proceeds : — " In this account, I am bound to let your Honours know in general, that there was much baseness of spirit, not among the merchantmen only, but many of the State's ships ; and, therefore, I make it my earnest request, that your Honours would be... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - Great Britain - 1867 - 552 pages
...the battle, Blake thus proceeds:—" In this account, I am bound to let your Honours know in general, that there was much baseness of spirit, not among the merchantmen only, but many of the State's ships; and, therefore, I make it my earnest request, that your Honours would be... | |
 | Sir William Laird Clowes, Sir Clements Robert Markham, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Herbert Wrigley Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Leonard George Carr Laughton - Great Britain - 1898 - 666 pages
...dejected by his defeat. In reporting the result of the battle to the Council of State, he wrote : — * " I am bound to let your Honours know that there was...baseness of spirit, not among the merchantmen only, but many of the State's ships ; and, therefore, I make it my earnest request, that your Honours would be... | |
 | David Hannay - 1898 - 530 pages
...measures to enforce discipline and a proper martial spirit amongst their captains. Blake had complained " that there was much baseness of spirit, not among the merchantmen only, but many of the State's ships," and he had asked for a committee of inquiry. This request was instantly... | |
 | Great Britain - 1906 - 508 pages
...where (by God's providence) we now are. In this account I am bound to let your Honours know in general that there was much baseness of spirit, not among the merchantmen only, but many of the State's ships, and therefore I make it my humble request that your Honours would be pleased... | |
 | Esther Meynell - Admirals - 1910 - 382 pages
...where (by God's providence) we now are. In this account I am bound to let your Honours know in general that there was much baseness of spirit, not among the merchantmen only, but many of the State's ships, and therefore I make it my humble request that your Honours would be pleased... | |
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