 | James Stanier Clarke, Stephen Jones, John Jones - 1799 - 640 pagina’s
...skill, dared to make the attack ? — No. But, confident in their superior knowledge in naval taftfc, and relying on our want of penetration, they have...our headlong courage would hurry us on to make the customaryattack, though at a disadvantage almost beyond the power of calculation ; the consequences... | |
 | 1872 - 610 pagina’s
...pleasure, and desirous to play off manoeuvres of defence, long studied with the greatest attention Confident in their superior knowledge in naval tactics,...courage would hurry us on to make the customary attack at a disadvantage almost beyond the power of calculation.' (Clerk.) As the century advanced towards... | |
 | Archibald Duncan - 1809 - 412 pagina’s
...penetration, they constantly offered us battle to leeward; trusting that the impetuosity of our national courage would hurry us on to make the customary attack,...disadvantage almost beyond the power of calculation. Till this artifice was discovered, and till our system of receiving, and of making an attack was changed,... | |
 | Percy Arthur Baxter Silburn - 1912 - 314 pagina’s
...constantly offered battle to leeward, relying upon the impetuosity of the British national courage to hurry on to make the customary attack, though at a disadvantage almost beyond the power of calculation. Until this artifice was discovered, and until the British system of receiving and of making an attack... | |
 | Harold Winter Hodges, Edward Arthur Hughes - 1922 - 260 pagina’s
...skill, dared to make the attack? — No. But, confident in their superior knowledge in naval tactic, and relying on our want of penetration, they have...same, as long as prejudices prevent us from discerning either the improvements made by the enemy, or our own blunders. 114. NELSON'S VIEW OF CLERK OF ELDIN... | |
 | Harold Winter Hodges, Edward Arthur Hughes - 1922 - 260 pagina’s
...skill, dared to make the attack? — No. But, confident in their superior knowledge in naval tactic, and relying on our want of penetration, they have...always been, and always will be, the same, as long as prej udices prevent us from discerning either the improvements made by the enemy, or our own blunders.... | |
 | Noel Mostert - 2008 - 800 pagina’s
...the French ever effected anything decisive against us? Have they ever, in any of these reencounters, taken any of our ships? Have they ever, presuming...same, as long as prejudices prevent us from discerning either the improvements made by the enemy, or our own blunders. 'To be completely victorious cannot... | |
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Tactic, and relying on our want of penetration, they have constantly offered us battle to leeward, trusting that our headlong courage would hurry us on to make the customary attack, though at a disadvantage almost beyond the power of calculation... 