 | Robert Southey - 1895 - 316 páginas
...individual in it; and when I came to explain to them the 'Nelson touch,' it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved. ' It was new — it...was singular — it was simple!' and from admirals downward it was repeated: ' It must succeed, if ever they will allow us to get at them! You are, my... | |
 | 1897 - 760 páginas
...to them what he termed the "Nelson touch." " It was like an electric shock," he writes to Emma ; " some shed tears, all approved. ' It was new, it was...succeed if ever they will allow us to get at them.' " His presence was doubly welcome ; it brought with it a social sunshine into the fleet. The captains... | |
 | Walter Sichel - 1905 - 698 páginas
...his sword.2 When he explained to the officers ' the Netson touch,' ' it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved ' : ' it was new, it...must succeed if ever they will allow us to get at them.'3 Again he had been stinted in battleships. Nelson ascended the poop to view both lines of those... | |
 | Walter Sichel - 1907 - 618 páginas
...without his sword.2 When he explained to the officers 'the Nelson touch' 'it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved ' : 'it was new, it...succeed if ever they will allow us to get at them.' 8 Again he had been stinted in battleships. * Nelson ascended the poop to view both lines of those... | |
 | Henry Lawrence Swinburne, Norman Wilkinson, Charles Napier Robinson - 1907 - 648 páginas
...It was the plan he had devised for attacking the combined fleet, and some of them shed tears, while all approved. "It was new, it was singular, it was simple," and, they said, " it must succeed, if ever they will allow us to get at them ! You are, my lord, surrounded... | |
 | James Richard Thursfield - 1909 - 446 páginas
...individual in it ; when I came to explain to them the " Nelson touch " it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved. " It was new — it...succeed, if ever they will allow us to get at them ! " A few days later, on October 9, he embodied his plan in the famous Memorandum, and sent a copy... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount) - 1917 - 68 páginas
...individual in it ; and when I came to explain to them the Nelson touch, it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved — It was new — it...succeed, if ever they will allow us to get at them " etc. Captain AT Mahan in his ' Life of Nelson ' (1899) says of the Nelson Touch: "The expression... | |
 | Horace West Household - 1917 - 210 páginas
...; the " Nelson touch," he called it. "It was like an electric shock," he said. " All approved . . . From admirals downwards, it was repeated ' It must...succeed, if ever they will allow us to get at them.' " That Villeneuve must come out all knew. Cadiz could not possibly feed his great fleet and its 30,000... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount) - 1917 - 60 páginas
...—It was new—it was singular—it was simple !! and, from Admirals downwards it was repeated—It must succeed, if ever they will allow us to get at them"' etc. Captain AT Mahan in his ' Life of Nelson' (1899) says of the Nelson Touch: "The expression . .... | |
 | Sir Geoffrey Arthur Romaine Callender - 1919 - 250 páginas
...Memorandum wrote : " When I came to explain to them the ' Nelson Touch ' it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears ; all approved. ' It was new — it...succeed, if ever they will allow us to get at them ! ' " Now the enemy's fleet on the day of battle was sighted about six in the morning. At that moment... | |
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It was new — it was singular — it was simple!" and, from Admirals downwards, it was repeated — "It must succeed, if ever they will allow us to get at them! You are, my Lord, surrounded by friends whom you inspire with confidence. 
