 | Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount), Matthew Henry Barker - 1836 - 500 pages
...with them, will appear off Ushant, with perhaps 34 sail, there to be joined by 20 more. .... Unless it be to bring their powerful fleets and armies to some...would do without the hope of an adequate reward." Before Nelson had ascertained the real destination of the enemy on their leaving the Mediterranean,... | |
 | English essays - 1837 - 738 pages
...thirty-four sail, there to be joined with twenty more. This appears a probable plan ; for, unless it be to bring their powerful fleets and armies to some...subjecting them to chance of loss, which I do not believe Buonaparte would do without the hope of adequate reward. The French Government never aims at little... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1837 - 734 pages
...thirty-four sail, there to be joined with twenty more. This appears a probable plan ; for, unless it be to bring their powerful fleets and armies to some...point of service, some rash attempt at conquest, they hove only been subjecting them to chance of loss, which I do not believe Buonaparte would do without... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1854 - 416 pages
...thirty -four sail, there to be joined by twenty more. This appears a probable plan ; for unless it be to bring their powerful fleets and armies to some...at conquest, they have only been subjecting them to a chance ot loss, which I do not believe Buonaparte would do without the hope of an adequate reward.... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - Europe - 1854 - 412 pages
...with thirty-four sail, there to be joined by twenty more. This appears a probable plan ; for unless it be to bring their powerful fleets and armies to some...at conquest, they have only been subjecting them to a chance ot loss, which I do not believe Buonaparte would do without the hope of an adequate reward.... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - Europe - 1854 - 412 pages
...with thirty-four sail, there to be joined by twenty more. This appears a probable plan ; for unless it be to bring their powerful fleets and armies to some...at conquest, they have only been subjecting them to a chance of loss, which I do not believe Buonaparte would do without the hope of an adequate reward.... | |
 | HUMPHREY BLUNT - 1860 - 444 pages
...with thirty-four sail, there to be joined by twenty more. This appears a probable plan ; for unless it be to bring their powerful fleets and armies to some...conquest — they have only been subjecting them to a chance of loss, which I do not believe Bonaparte would do without the hope of an adequate reward.... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1860 - 708 pages
...thirty.four sail, desiyn. thfre to he joined by twenty more. Thia appears a probable plan ; for unless it be to bring their powerful fleets and armies to some great point of sendee, some rash attempt at conquest, they have only been subjecting them to a chance of loss, which... | |
 | 1869 - 506 pages
...will appear off Ushant, with perhaps thirty-four sail, there to be joined by twenty more. Unless it be to "bring their powerful fleets and armies to some...would do without the hope of an adequate reward." The very small fleet of Admiral Collingwood off Cadiz having been re-inforced by that of Lord Nelson, and... | |
 | Auguste Napoléon Joseph marquis de Colbert-Chabanais - France - 1882 - 538 pages
...hâtait, le fusil sur l'épaule, de gagner le lieu du rendez- vous ; le noble, au fleets and nrmies to some great point of service, some rash attempt...at conquest, they have only been subjecting them to a chance of loss, wich I do not believe Buonaparte would do without the hope of an adequate reward.... | |
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L, be to bring their powerful fleets and armies to some great point of service — some rash attempt at conquest — they have only been subjecting them to chance of loss, which I do not believe the Corsican would do without the hope of an adequate reward. 
