 | Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1845 - 602 pages
...rose on Monday morning, his Ship dismasted, his Fleet dispersed, .and himself in such distress, that the meanest Frigate out of France would have been a very unwelcome guest. But it has pleased Almighty God to bring us into a safe Port, where, although we the Enemy, though... | |
 | Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1845 - 594 pages
...rose on Monday morning, his Ship dismasted, his Fleet dispersed, and himself in such distress, that the meanest Frigate out of France would have been a very unwelcome guest. But it has pleased Almighty God to bring us into a safe Port, where, although we the Enemy, though... | |
 | Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - Admirals - 1849 - 572 pages
...rose on Monday morning, his ship dismasted, his fleet dispersed, and himself in such distress, that the meanest frigate out of France would have been a very unwelcome guest. But it has pleased Almighty God to bring us into a safe port, where, although we are refused the rights... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - Mediterranean Region - 1854 - 544 pages
...bowsprit; washed a man overboard, killed a midshipman and a seaman, and wounded several more. This ship, which acted her name at the Nile only two months...been a very unwelcome guest !' And in the winter of ] 808, when his true and tried associate, Lord Collingwood, was The ocean, blockading Toulon, with... | |
 | William Freke Williams - 1854 - 818 pages
...rose on Monday morning, his ship dismasted, his fleet dispersed, and himself in such distress, that the meanest frigate out of France would have been a very unwelcome guest. But it has pleased Almighty God to bring us into a safe port, where, although we are refused the rights... | |
 | William Freke Williams - 1864 - 786 pages
...rose on Monday morning, his ship dismasted, his fleet dispersed, and himself in such distress, that the meanest frigate out of France would have been a very unwelcome guest. But it has pleased Almighty God to bring us into a safe port, where, although we are refused the rights... | |
 | Frederick Whymper - 1883 - 712 pages
...man overboard, killed an unfortunate middy and a seaman on board, and wounded others. This M. uasm. ship, which acted her name at the Nile only two months...The meanest frigate out of France would have been an unwelcome guest ! " An officer relates that in the middle of the Gulf of Lyons, Lord Collingwood's... | |
 | Edward Kirk Rawson - Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862 - 1899 - 498 pages
...rose on Monday morning: his ship dismasted, his fleet dispersed, and himself in such distress that the meanest frigate out of France would have been a very unwelcome guest. ... I ought not to call what has happened to the Vanguard by the cold name of accident; I believe firmly... | |
 | William Henry Fitchett - Europe - 1900 - 416 pages
...rose on Monday morning, his ship dismasted, his fleet dispersed, and himself in such distress, that the meanest frigate out of France would have been a very unwelcome guest." Nelson's frigates were blown clean away by the gale ; and having caught a glimpse of the wrecked condition... | |
 | Esther Meynell - Women - 1907 - 526 pages
...rose on Monday morning, his ship dismasted, his fleet dispersed, and himself in such distress that the meanest frigate out of France would have been a very unwelcome guest." And the worst of all was that the very northerly wind which half-wrecked the Vanguard enabled the whole... | |
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Figure to yourself this proud, conceited man, when the sun rose on Monday morning, his ship dismasted, his Fleet dispersed, and himself in such distress, that the meanest Frigate out of France would have been a very unwelcome guest. 
