 | William Henry Fitchett - 1900 - 438 pagina’s
...cold name of accident." " I believe firmly," he wrote with characteristic self-frankness to his wife, "that it was the Almighty's goodness to check my consummate...officer, as I feel confident it has made me a better man. Figure to yourself a vain man, on Sunday evening at sunset, walking in his cabin with a squadron about... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1902 - 388 pagina’s
...th« remainder of their lives. " I ought not," said the admiral, writing to his wife, " I ought not to call what has happened to the Vanguard by the cold name of accident ; I believe firmly it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity. I hope it has made me a better officer,... | |
 | 1860 - 1226 pagina’s
...afterwards defeated at the Nile :— Vanguard, off Sardinia, May 24, 1798— My dearest Fanny, I ought not to call what has happened to the Vanguard by the cold name of accident. I believe firmly it was the Almighty goodness to check my consummate vanity. I hope it has made me a better officer,... | |
 | Anonymous - 1810 - 560 pagina’s
...during the remainder of their lives. ' I ought not,' says the admiral writing to his wife, ' I ought not to call what has happened to the Vanguard by the cold name of accident: I believe, firmly, it was the Almighty's goodness to check my consummate vanity. Figure to yourself, on Sunday evening... | |
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I ought not to call what has happened to the Vanguard by the cold name of accident ; I believe firmly it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity. 
