 | Improved illustrated reader - 1885 - 266 páginas
...dispense, nun, armour. Make sentences to show the use of these words. LII.— DEATH OF NELSON. PART I. 1. It had been part of Nelson's prayer that the British fleet might be marked by humanity in the victory which he expected. Setting an example himself, he twice gave orders... | |
 | Jacob W. Shoemaker - 1883 - 236 páginas
...with all his strength ; and therefore they loved him as truly and as fervently as he loved England. It had been part of Nelson's prayer that the British fleet might be'distinguished by humanity in the victory which he expected. Setting an example himself, he twice... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1890 - 424 páginas
...Victory from both sides ; her larboard guns playing upon the Bucentaure and the huge Santissima Trinidad. It had been part of Nelson's prayer, that the British...himself, he twice gave orders to cease firing upon the Redoutable, supposing that she had struck, because her great guns were silent ; for, as she carried... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1893 - 524 páginas
...excite interest, or to vivify by poetic devices; the subject contains its own interest and beauty. " It had been part of Nelson's prayer, that the British...cease firing upon the Redoubtable, supposing that sne had struck, because her great guns were silent; for, as she carried no flag, there was no means... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Publishers - 1893 - 444 páginas
...boii'terous terrif 1C, for'mldoble troubled, dUturbed. BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR, AND DEATH OF NELSON. PART II. IT had been part of Nelson's prayer that the British...example himself, he twice gave orders to cease firing on the Redoubtable, supposing that she had struck because her guns were silent; for, as she carried... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - 1895 - 456 páginas
...both sides, her larboard guns playing upon the ' ' Bucentaure " and the huge " Santissima Trinidad." It had been part of Nelson's prayer that the British...himself, he twice gave orders to cease firing upon the ' ' Redoutable, ' ' supposing that she had struck, because her great guns were silent ; for, as she... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1894 - 586 páginas
...not be debarred from gazing, till the last moment, upon the hero — the darling hero of England ! It had been part of Nelson's prayer, that the British...example himself, he twice gave orders to cease firing on the Redoubtable, supposing that she had struck, because her guns were silent ; for, as she carried... | |
 | Kate Stephens, Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 328 páginas
...Victory from both sides; her larboard guns playing upon the Bucentaure and the huge Santissima Trinidad. It had been part of Nelson's prayer, that the British...an example himself, he twice gave orders to cease tiring upon the Redoubtable, supposing that she had struck, because her great guns were silent; for,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1896 - 800 páginas
...with him to his quarters at Coruna, weeping as they went. (From The History of the Peninsular War.) THE DEATH OF NELSON IT had been part of Nelson's prayer...himself, he twice gave orders to cease firing upon the " Redoutable," supposing that she had struck because her great guns were silent ; for as she carried... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1896 - 354 páginas
...Victory from both sides; her larboard guns playing upon the Bucentaure, and the huge Santissima Trinidad. It had been part of Nelson's prayer, that the British...himself, he twice gave orders to cease firing upon the Redoutable, supposing that she had struck, because her great guns were silent; for, as she carried... | |
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Redoutable, supposing that she had struck, because her great guns were silent; for, as she carried no flag, there was no means of instantly ascertaining the fact. From this ship, which he had thus twice spared, he received his death. A ball fired from... 
