 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 shall endure; — Nelson's last signal : — " England expects every man to do his duty !" It was received throughout...  The Life of Nelson - Page 253by Robert Southey - 1813Full view - About this book
 | Ludwig Herrig - English literature - 1906 - 844 pages
...he asked him if he did not think there was a signal wanting. Capt Blackas wood made answer that he thought the whole fleet seemed very clearly to understand...scarcely spoken before that signal was made which 90 will be remembered as long as the language, or even the memory, of England shall endure — Nelson's... | |
 | Robert Southey - Sailors - 1907 - 102 pages
...asked him, if he 20 did not think there was a signal wanting. Capt. Blackwood made answer, that he thought the whole fleet seemed very clearly to understand...EXPECTS EVERY MAN TO DO HIS DUTY!" It was received throughout the fleet with a shout of answering acclamation, made 30 sublime by the spirit which it... | |
 | Ocean - 1907 - 264 pages
...he asked him if he did not think there was a signal wanting. Captain Blackwood made answer that he thought the whole fleet seemed very clearly to understand...signal was made which will be remembered as long as the lauguage, or even the memory of England, shall endure — Nelson's last signal — "ENGLAND EXPECTS... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton - Readers - 1908 - 352 pages
...he asked him if he did not think there was a signal wanting. Captain Blackwood made answer that he thought the whole fleet seemed very clearly to understand...EXPECTS EVERY MAN TO DO HIS DUTY ! " It was received throughout the fleet with a shout of answering acclamation, made sublime by the spirit which it breathed,... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - Authors, English - 1909 - 694 pages
...he asked him if he did not think there was a signal wanting. Captain Blackwood made answer that he thought the whole fleet seemed very clearly to understand...expects every man to do his duty!' It was received throughout the fleet with a shout of answering acclamation, made sublime by the spirit which it breathed... | |
 | Charles H.Sylevester - 1909 - 594 pages
...he asked him if he did not think there was a signal wanting. Captain Blackwood made answer that he thought the whole fleet seemed very clearly to understand...the language, or even the memory, of England shall endure—Nelson's last signal:— "England expects every man to do his duty\" It was received throughout... | |
 | James Richard Thursfield - Biography & Autobiography - 1909 - 446 pages
...were made; for Nelson, as we know, made several, including that immortal one which, as Southey says, " will be remembered as long as the language, or even the memory, of England shall endure." But what Collingwood appears to have meant is that no signals were necessary and none were made to... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - Anthologies - 1910 - 490 pages
...he asked him if he did not think there was a signal wanting. Cap*tain Blackwood made answer that he thought the whole fleet seemed very clearly to understand...remembered as long as the language, or even the memory, or England shall endure — Nelson's last signal : — " England expects every man to do his duty !"... | |
 | JOEL COOK - 1910 - 742 pages
...that every man will do his duty," a signal of which Southey said in his life of the hero, that it " will be remembered as long as the language, or even the memory, of England shall endure." It is said that Villeneuve when he heard the vigorous shouting was much affected by it, so that he... | |
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