| Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount) - 1917 - 60 páginas
...prepare for Battle, the Enemy with their heads to the Southward. At 7 the Enemy wearing in succession. May the Great God whom I worship Grant to my Country...great and Glorious Victory, and may no misconduct in anyone tarnish it, and may humanity after Victory be the predominant feature in the 24 British Fleet.... | |
| Horace West Household - 1917 - 210 páginas
...wrote, and surely there could be no nobler prayer in the heart of a commander on the day of battle. " May the Great God, whom I worship, grant to my Country,...great and glorious victory ; and may no misconduct in anyone tarnish it, and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet.... | |
| Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount) - 1917 - 68 páginas
...Southward. At 7 the Enemy wearing in succession. May the Great God whom I worship Grant to my Countiy and for the benefit of Europe in General a great and Glorious Victory, and may no misconduct in anyone tarnish it, and may humanity after Victory be the predominant feature in the 24 British Fleet.... | |
| Arthur Douglas Elliot - 1918 - 256 páginas
...uttered on a solemn occasion, just before Trafalgar, how on his knees he prayed, " May the great God I worship grant to my country, and for the benefit...and glorious victory ; and may no misconduct in any way tarnish it ; and may humanity in victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet. ..."... | |
| Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1919 - 406 páginas
...the cabin, and there makes a codicil to his will, and writes his last prayer in his private diary. " May the Great God, whom I worship, grant to my Country,...great and glorious Victory ; and may no misconduct in anyone tarnish it, and may humanity after Victory be the predominant feature in the British Fleet.... | |
| Julian Stafford Corbett - 1919 - 362 páginas
...French. " At seven," he wrote in the last entry in his Private Diary, " the enemy wearing in succession. May the Great God whom I worship grant to my country...of Europe in general a great and glorious Victory." He must have i Clarke and M'Arthur, ii. 146, and Nicolas, vii. 138. NELSON'S FIRST IDEA 405 thought,... | |
| Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - 1924 - 942 páginas
...of fourteen. Having seen that all was as it should be, Nelson retired to his cabin, and wrote this horse, — friend, foe, — in one red burial blent...Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between 1 French and Spanish. * Nelson's flagship. one tarnish it ; and may humanity after victory be the predominant... | |
| James Cooper - 1924 - 160 páginas
...wrote in his private cabin in the Victory before the battle joined off the ' Cape of Laurels ' : ' May the great God, whom I worship, grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe, a great and glorious victory ; and may no misconduct of any one tarnish it ; and may humanity after... | |
| Élie Halévy - 1924 - 604 páginas
...retired into his cabin and composed the following prayer : " May the great God, whom I worship, grant my country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory. . . . Amen. Amen. Amen." ' Very different would have been the language and deaths of French mutineers... | |
| Owen Aubrey Sherrard - 1927 - 390 páginas
...he drew up the famous Prayer and Codicil to his will, witnessed by Blackwood and Hardy. They ran : PRAYER " May the Great God, whom I worship, grant...great and glorious victory ; and may no misconduct hi any one tarnish it ; and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet.... | |
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