 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1810 - 462 pages
...content with less than twenty of them ! captain Blackwood was walking with hirn on the poop, und he asked him if he did not think there was a signal wanting. The captain replied, he " thought the whole of the fleet seemed very clearly to understand what they... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1813 - 306 pages
...were captured. He replied : " I shall not be satisfied with less " than twenty." Soon afterwards he asked him if he did not think there was a signal wanting. Captain Blackwood made answer, that lie thought the whole fleet seemed very clearly to understand what they were about. These words were... | |
 | United States - 1814 - 258 pages
...were captured. He replied : " I •' shall not be satisfied with less than twenty." Soon afterwards he asked him if he did not think there was a signal wanting....signal : — " England " expects every man to do his duty !" It was received throughout the fleet with a shout of answering acclamation, made sublime by... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1814 - 322 pages
...fourteen were captured. He replied : " I shall not be satisfied with less than twenty." Soon afterwards he asked him, if he did not think there was a signal wanting. Capt. Blackwood made answer, that he thought the whole fleet seemed very clearly to understand what... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...thought the whole of the fleet seemed very clearly to understand what they were about.' He had however scarcely spoken, before that signal was made, which will be remembered as long as the language and the name of England shall endure — Nelson's last signal — ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY MAN TO DO HIS... | |
 | John Campbell - Great Britain - 1817 - 562 pages
...fourteen were captured. He replied : * 1 shall not be satisfied with less than twenty.' Soon afterwards he asked him if he did not think there •was a signal...signal : — ' England expects every man to do his duty !' It was received throughout the fleet with a shout of answering acclamation, made sublime by... | |
 | Englishman - 1824 - 420 pages
...fourteen were captured. He replied, " I shall not be satisfied with less than twenty." Soon afterwards he asked him if he did not think there was a signal wanting. Blackwood made answer, that he thought the whole fleet seemed very clearly to understand what they... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1828 - 302 pages
...twenty." Soon afterwards he asked him, if he did not think there was a signal wanting. Capt. Black wood made answer, that he thought the whole fleet seemed...signal : — " ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY "MAN TO DO HIS DUTY!" It was receiv-' \ ed throughout the fleet with a shout of answering acclamation, made sublime... | |
 | Robert Southey - Admirals - 1830 - 354 pages
...fourteen were captured. He replied, " I shall not be satisfied with less than twenty." Soon afterward he asked him, if he did not think there was a signal wanting. Capt. Blackwood made answer, that he thought the whole fleet seemed very clearly Bb2 to understand... | |
 | Charles Doyne Sillery - 1834 - 248 pages
...the watchword — ' England — isle of beauty ! — Expects that every man will do his duty !' " The signal was made, which will be remembered as long...last signal — " England expects every man to do his duty !" It was received throughout the fleet with a shout of answering acclamation, made sublime by... | |
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Blackwood made answer, that he thought the whole fleet seemed very clearly to understand what they were about. These words were scarcely spoken before that signal was made, which will be remembered as long as the language, or even the memory, of England... 
