| Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount), Matthew Henry Barker - 1836 - 500 pages
...superior mind. Being placed by him, I endeavoured to rouse his attention by showing him all the civilities in my power ; but I drew out little more than yes...there, we think you would have made something of him t for you have been in the habit of attending to these odd sort of people." It was probably about the... | |
| Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1844 - 586 pages
...superior mind. Being placed by him, I endeavoured to rouse his attention by showing him all the civilities in my power ; but I drew out little more than ' Yes...sort of people. — Clarke and M- Arthur, vol. ip 37. 4 Vide p. 136. of: nor would any that reflected one moment. All that I can say is, that if you come... | |
| 1845 - 732 pages
...his attention, by shewing him all the civilities in my power ; but I drew out little more than ytt or no. If you, Fanny, had been there, we think you would...the habit of attending to these odd sort of people," &c. p. 133, note. 1845.] The Life, Progress, and Rebellion of James Duke of Monmouth, SfC. By George... | |
| Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - 1849 - 572 pages
...superior mind. Being placed by him, I endeavoured to rouse his attention by shewing him all the civilities in my power; but I drew out little more than ' Yes,'...the habit of attending to these odd sort of people." From a letter addressed to his uncle, William Suckling, Esq. dated November 14, 1785, communicating... | |
| Joseph ALLEN (of Greenwich Hospital.) - 1853 - 290 pages
...superior mind. Being placed by him, I endeavoured to rouse his attention by showing him all the civilities in my power : but I drew out little more than 'Yes'...you would have made something of him ; for you have the habit of attending to these odd sort of people. ' ' — Clarke and M' Arthur. * This is somewhat... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1911 - 890 pages
...mind. Being placed fay him, I endeav. cured to rouse his attention by showing him all the civilities in my power; but I drew out little more than ' Yes...the habit of attending to these odd sort of people ! It is natural to conclude that the lady who wrote this must have been uncongenial to Nelson, for... | |
| 1879 - 760 pages
...mind. I endeavoured, being placed near him, to rouse his attention, showing him all the civilities in my ¡ power; but I drew out little more than > yes and no. We think, Fanny, that if you had been there, some thing might have been made of him, since • It Ь... | |
| John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1888 - 380 pages
...insane patients. ' If you, Fanny, had been there,' the fair and vivacious Creole wrote to Mrs. Nisbet, 'we think you would have made something of him ; for...the habit of attending to these odd sort of people.' To the Nevis ladies, Captain Nelson's taciturnity was the more curious and perplexing, because his... | |
| George Lathom Browne - 1891 - 576 pages
...superior mind. Being placed by him, I endeavoured to rouse his attention by showing him all the civilities in my power; but I drew out little more than 'yes' and 'no.' If you, Fanny, had been here, we think you would have made something of him, for you have been in the habit of attending to... | |
| John Knox Laughton - 1895 - 264 pages
...superior mind. Being placed by him, I endeavoured to rouse his attention by showing him all the civilities in my power ; but I drew out little more than ' Yes,'...the habit of attending to these odd sort of people." On May 12th, Nelson, writing to his brother, says incidentally that he has been visiting a young widow... | |
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