| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 páginas
...convinced of the excellence of that prompt and decisive system which Captain Collingvvood pursued, that it was his frequent practice to draft the most...he used to say, ' and he will bring them to order.' 1 On one occasion, a seaman was sent from the Romulus, who had pointed one of the forecastle guns,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 626 páginas
...so convinced of the excellence of that prompt and decisive system which Captain Collingwood pursued, that it was his frequent practice to draft the most...he used to say, ' and he will bring them to order.' ' On one occasion, a seaman was sent from the Romulus, who had pomted one of the forecastle guns, shotted... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 páginas
...so convinced of the excellence of that prompt and decisive system which Captain Collingwood pursued, that it was his frequent practice to draft the most...he used to say, ' and he will bring them to order.' ' On one occasion, a seaman was sent from the Romulus, who had pointed one of the forecastle guns,... | |
| 1828 - 448 páginas
...subdued that spirit of mutiny in it which had broken out at the Nore. It was the practice of this admiral to draft the most ungovernable spirits into the Excellent....he used to say, " and he will bring them to order." Now, while capital punishments were frequently taking place in other ships, Captain Collingwood, simply... | |
| 1828 - 598 páginas
...so convinced of the excellence of that prompt and decisive system which Captain Collingwood pursued, that it was his frequent practice to draft the most...Excellent. ' Send them to Collingwood,' he used to gay, ' and he will bring them to order.' ' On one occasion, a seaman was sent from the Romulus, who... | |
| 1828 - 798 páginas
...and effect in the prompt and decisive measures which were then pursued; and of this (he Admiral »as so convinced, that it was his frequent practice to...spirits into the Excellent. ' Send them to Collingwood, 'heused to say, 'and he will bring them to order.' Notwithstanding this while capital punishments were... | |
| Englishmen - 1836 - 258 páginas
...so convinced of the excellence of that prompt and decisive system which Captain Collingwood pursued, that it was his frequent practice to draft the most...he used to say, ' and he will bring them to order.' On one occasion, a seaman was sent from the Romulus, who had pointed one of the forecastle guns, shotted... | |
| 1842 - 300 páginas
...at this critical time, our hero stood foremost. Often would the admiral draft the most unmanageable spirits into the Excellent: " Send them to Collingwood,"...he used to say, " and he will bring them to order." And yet that commander, like Lord Exmouth, was not less noted for his general kindness and humanity... | |
| sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1843 - 828 páginas
...insubordination in the Mediterranean fleet, at the time of the mutiny at the Nore, he frequently drafted the most ungovernable spirits into the Excellent....he used to say, " and he will bring them to order." On one occasion a seaman was sent from the Romulus, who had pointed one of the forecastle guns, shotted... | |
| Margaret Fraser Tytler - 1847 - 388 páginas
...great work did he find your hero, that the most ungovernable spirits were invariably drafted by him into the Excellent. " Send them to Collingwood," he...bring them to order." Notwithstanding this, while the terrible necessity of inflicting immediate and capital punishment on the most daring among the... | |
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