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" May the great God, whom I adore, enable me to fulfil the expectations of my country ; and if it is his good pleasure that I should return, my thanks will never cease being offered up to the throne of his mercy. If it is his good providence to cut short... "
The Life of Nelson - Page 233
by Robert Southey - 1828
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The Divine Lady: A Romance of Nelson and Emma Hamilton

Lily Adams Beck - Admirals - 1924 - 440 pages
...my thanks will never cease being offered up to the Throne of His Mercy. If it is His good Providence to cut short my days upon earth, I bow with the greatest...submission, relying that He will protect those so dear to me that I may leave behind. His will be done." He closed with a triple Amen. So Emma, leaning from the...
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The Oxford Book of English Prose

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1124 pages
...'Departure from ^Portsmouth EARLY on the following morning he reached Portsmouth ; and having dispatched his business on shore, endeavoured to elude the populace by taking a by-way to the beach ; but a crowd collected in his train, pressing forward, to obtain a sight of his...
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A Life of Emma Hamilton

Owen Aubrey Sherrard - Ambassadors' spouses - 1927 - 390 pages
...my thanks will never cease being offered up to the Throne of His Mercy. If it is His good Providence to cut short my days upon earth, I bow with the greatest...relying that He will protect those so dear to me, that I may leave behind. His will be done. Amen. Amen. Amen." On the I4th he embarked, and gazing at...
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Decision at Trafalgar: The Story of the Greatest British Naval Battle of the ...

Dudley Pope - Fiction - 1999 - 384 pages
...my thanks will never cease being offered up to the throne of His Mercy. If it is His good Providence to cut short my days upon earth, I bow with the greatest...relying that He will protect those so dear to me, that I may leave behind. His will be done. Amen. Amen. Amen." AT SIX O'CLOCK next morning the carriage...
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The Nelson Encyclopedia

Colin White - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 380 pages
...my thanks will never cease being offered up to the Throne of His Mercy. If it is His good providence to Cut short my days upon Earth I bow with the greatest Submission . . .' SEE ALSO Death of Nelson, Relics LATEST RESEARCH Colin White, 'The Death of Nelson', in Robert...
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Nelson: Love & Fame

Edgar Vincent - History - 2003 - 654 pages
...my thanks will never cease being offered up to the Throne of His Mercy. If it is His good providence to cut short my days upon earth, I bow with the greatest...relying that He will protect those so dear to me, that I may leave behind. - His will be done: Amen, Amen, Amen.69 He arrived at the George Inn in Portsmouth's...
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Side Lights on English History: Extracts from Letters, Papers, and Diaries ...

Ernest F. Henderson - History - 2004 - 468 pages
...offered up to the throne of His mercy. If it is His good providence to NELSON. Engraved in Italy in 1799 cut short my days upon earth, I bow with the greatest...submission, relying that he will protect those so dear to me that 1 may leave behind. His will be done. Amen. Amen. Oct. 1. (Letter.) I believe my arrival was most...
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The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 6; Volume 69

1867 - 818 pages
...my thanks will never cease being offered up to the throne of His mercy. If it is His good providence to cut short my days upon earth, I bow with the greatest...protect those so dear to me, whom I may leave behind 1 His will be done ! Amen ! Amen ! Amen ! " The probability of his death had entered his mind, that...
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Heroes and Greathearts and Their Animal Friends

John T. Dale - Animal welfare - 1908 - 312 pages
...my thanks will never cease being offered up to the throne of His mercy. If it is His good providence to cut short my days upon earth, I bow with the greatest...submission, relying that He will protect those so dear to me that I may leave behind. "His will be done. Amen." Before the battle opened, when his ships were all...
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