 | 1831 - 610 pagina’s
...to be omitted. " MY DEAII BERRY, — I am sensible of your kindness in wishing for my presence lit the finish of the Egyptian fleet, but I have no cause for sorrow. The thing could not be better done, anil I would not, for all the world, rob you of one particle of your well-earned laurels. Thank kindly... | |
 | Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1845 - 586 pagina’s
...EDWARD BERRY. [Autograph, in the possession of Lady Ben;.] Palermo, [April] 5th, 1800. My dear Berry, I am sensible of your kindness in wishing my presence...sorrow. The thing could not be better done, and I would signals. AM at 12, slipped the cable, set all sail, saw and heard the report of several guns to the... | |
 | Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1845 - 594 pagina’s
...EDWARD BERRY. [Autograph, in the possession of Lady Berry.] Palermo, [April] 5th, 1800. My dear Berry, I am sensible of your kindness in wishing my presence...sorrow. The thing could not be better done, and I would signals. AM at 12, slipped the cable, set all Bail, saw and heard the report of several guns to the... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount), Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1845 - 604 pagina’s
...EDWARD BERRY. [Autograph, in the possession of Lady Berry.] Palermo, [April] 5th, 1800. My dear Berry, I am sensible of your kindness in wishing my presence...at the finish of the Egyptian Fleet, but I have no canse for sorrow. The thing could not be better done, and I would signals. AM at 12, slipped the oable,... | |
 | George Lathom Browne - 1891 - 576 pagina’s
...Admiralty. Within hail before I fired." Nelson's reply : — "PALERMO (dpril) 5, 1800. " MY DEAR BERRY, — I am sensible of your kindness in wishing my presence...finish of the Egyptian Fleet, but I have no cause of sorrow. The thing could not be better done, and I would not for all the world rob you of one particle... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1893 - 524 pagina’s
...but one wish this morning — it was for you." "I am sensible of your kindness," was the answer, " in wishing my presence at the finish of the Egyptian...done, and I would not, for all the world, rob you of one particle of your well-earned laurels." And to Lord St. Vincent he wrote in the same strain, and... | |
 | 1893 - 558 pagina’s
...wish this morning — it was for you." "I am sensible of your kindness," was the answer, "in waning my presence at the finish of the Egyptian fleet, but...done, and I would not, for all the world, rob you of one particle of your well-earned laurels." And to Lord St. Vincent he wrote in the same strain, and... | |
 | John Knox Laughton - 1896 - 442 pagina’s
...letter will testify as to the extreme excitement in which it was written. In answer to it Nelson wrote: "I am sensible of your kindness in wishing my presence...done, and I would not for all the world rob you of one particle of your well-earned laurels. Thank kindly for me all my brave friends in the Foudroyant... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1897 - 518 pagina’s
...flag. " I am sensible," he wrote from Palermo to Sir Edward Berry, the captain of the " Foudroyant," " of your kindness in wishing my presence at the finish...done, and I would not for all the world rob you of one particle of your well-earned laurels." In the matter of glory Nelson might well yield much to another,... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1897 - 524 pagina’s
...flag. " I am sensible," he wrote from Palermo to Sir Edward Berry, the captain of the " Foudroyant," "of your kindness in wishing my presence at the finish...Egyptian fleet, but I have no cause for sorrow. The tliing could not be better done, and I would not for all the world rob you of one particle of your... | |
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of your kindness in wishing my presence at the finish of the Egyptian fleet, but I have no cause for sorrow. The thing could not be better done, and I would not for all the world rob you of one particle of your well-earned laurels. 
