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" I passed my degree as master of arts on the 9th instant (that is, passed the lieutenant's examination), and received my commission on the following day for a fine frigate of thirty -two guns. So I am now left in the world to shift for myself, which I... "
The dispatches and letters of vice admiral ... Nelson, with notes by sir N.H ... - Page xxv
by Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1844
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The dispatches and letters of vice admiral ... Nelson, with notes ..., Volume 1

Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1844 - 586 pages
...servant Mid. Able Mid. 0 10 1 5 0530 0015 0526 1716 0432 0636 0 3 1 <T for a fine Frigate of 32 guns.2 So I am now left in [the] world to shift for myself, which I hope I shall do, so as to bring credit to myself and friends. Am sorry there is no possihility this time of seeing each other, but I hope...
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Life of Lord Viscount Nelson, K.B.

Joseph ALLEN (of Greenwich Hospital.) - 1853 - 290 pages
...received my commission on the following day for a fine frigate of thirty -two guns. So I am now left m the world to shift for myself, which I hope I shall do, so as to bring credit to myself and friends. I am sorry there is no possibility this time of seeing each other, but I hope...
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The English Illustrated Magazine, Volume 16

1897 - 772 pages
...Locker. " A fine frigate of thirty-two guns," writes Nelson joyously to his brother William ; " so I am now left in the world to shift for myself, which l hope l shall do so as to bring credit to myself and friends." His association with Captain Locker...
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A Mother's Son

Beatrice Fry, Charles Burgess Fry - 1908 - 358 pages
...round him happy, And that sentence of Nelson's, written in 1777, at the beginning of his career : " So I am now left in the world to shift for myself, which I hope I shall do so as to bring credit to myself and friends." Mark was pasting these quotations in his album when Wagstaff came to his side....
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Nelson: Love & Fame

Edgar Vincent - 2003 - 654 pages
...and received my Commission of the following day, for a fine frigate of 3 z-guns' adding, 'so now I am left in [the] world to shift for myself, which I hope I shall do, so as to bring credit to myself and friends'.20 With the Comptroller of the Navy behind him, shifting for himself would be...
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Nelson: A Dream of Glory, 1758-1797

John Sugden - 2004 - 984 pages
...Lieutenant's examination) and received my commission on the following day, for a fine frigate 0(32 guns. So I am now left in [the] world to shift for myself, which I hope I shall do, so as to bring credit to myself and friends. Am sorry there is no possibility this time of [us] seeing each other, but I...
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The Nelson Touch: The Life and Legend of Horatio Nelson

Terry Coleman - 2004 - 480 pages
...frigate Lowestoffe, 32 guns.16 'So,' as he continued in his letter to William, 'I am now left in [thej world to shift for myself, which I hope I shall do, so as to bring credit to myself and friends.' He would not quite have to fend for himself. His uncle the comptroller even...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 72

1844 - 588 pages
...Lieutenant's examination), and received my Commission on the following day, fora fine Frigate of 8:2 guns. So I am now left in [the] world to shift for myself, which I hope I shall do, so as to bring credit to myself and friends. Ï am sorry there is no jKJSsibility this time of seeing each other, but I hope...
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