 | Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount), Matthew Henry Barker - 1836 - 500 pages
...by dangerous wounds. Writing on the second day after the action to Earl St. Vincent, he says : — " I shall never bring myself again to allow any attack...I will do my utmost. I am ready to assist the good cause, and have no other view in my mind. Had our force arrived, as Death of Captain Parker. I intended,... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount), Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Admirals - 1845 - 604 pages
...THE EARL OF ST. VINCENT, KJ). [From Clarke and M'Arthur, vol. ii. p. 301.] 17th to 10th August, 1801. Most Secret. My dear Lord, I have real thoughts of...I will do my utmost: I am ready to assist the good Cause, and have no other view in my mind. Had our force arrived, as I intended, 'twas not * Mr. William... | |
 | Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1845 - 594 pages
...letters off Flushing, three days ago, that all the Dutch Vessels have moved lower down the Docrlog Channel, evidently to defend it : I will go and look...I will do my utmost: I am ready to assist the good Cause, and have no other view in my mind. Had our force arrived, as I intended, 'twas not * Mr. William... | |
 | Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - 1849 - 708 pages
...the enemy at Flushing ; he even contemplated a bombardment of Calais. To Earl St. Vincent he says, " I own I shall never bring myself again to allow any...indulgences, only believe that I will do my utmost." 1 This service was considered by many as of too petty a description for an officer of Lord Nelson's... | |
 | Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - 1849 - 710 pages
...the enemy at Flushing ; he even contemplated a bombardment of Calais. To Earl St. Vincent he says, " I own I shall never bring myself again to allow any...great indulgences, only believe that I will do my utmost."1 This service was considered by many as of too petty a description for an officer of Lord... | |
 | George Lathom Browne - Admirals - 1891 - 576 pages
...midshipmen, and the wounds of Parker and Langford, was most acute. "I own," he wrote to Lord St. Vincent, "I shall never bring myself again to allow any attack...I will do my utmost. I am ready to assist the good cause, and have no other view in my mind. Had our force arrived, as I intended, 'twas not all the chains... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - Biography & Autobiography - 1897 - 540 pages
...suffer much more and be alive." " I own," he had written to St. Vincent immediately after the repulse, " I shall never bring myself again to allow any attack...than if I had a leg shot off in this late business." The Admiralty refusing any allowances, much of the expense of Parker's illness and of his funeral fell... | |
 | England - 1897 - 790 pages
...put back to the squadron. Nelson was deeply chagrined. " My mind," he wrote to Lord St. Vincent, " suffers much more than if I had a leg shot off in this late business." In this same letter he makes an admission which should comfort the soul of the landsman : " Heavy sea,... | |
 | Harold Felix Baker Wheeler, Alexander Meyrick Broadley - Great Britain - 1908 - 482 pages
...inscription. See Appendix II. own I shall never bring myself to allow any attack to go forward, when I am not personally concerned ; my mind suffers much...than if I had a leg shot off in this late business. Had our force arrived as I intended, 'twas not all the chains in France that could have prevented our... | |
 | Colin White - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 380 pages
...and he worried that the battle might have been more successful if he had Icil the attack in person. 'I own I shall never bring myself again to allow any...to go forward where I am not personally concerned,' he wrote, 'my mind suffers more than if I had a leg shot off.' SEE ALSO Channel Command, Larouche Treville,... | |
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I own I shall never bring myself again to allow any attack to go forward, where I am not personally concerned ; my mind suffers much more than if I had a leg shot off in this late business. 
