 | Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount), Matthew Henry Barker - 1836 - 500 páginas
...my eyesight fails me most dreadfully. I firmly believe that in a few years I shall be stone blind : it is this only of all my maladies that makes me unhappy; but God's will be done !" A report reached him that the French fleet had slipped out of Toulon, and had been seen off Minorca.... | |
 | 1847 - 202 páginas
...eyesight fails me most dreadfully ; I firmly believe that in a very few years I shall be stone blind. It is this only of all my maladies that makes me unhappy...no personal exertion on my part shall be spared." f " I have submitted to Sir Richard Strachan," he writes to Lord Minto, " whether the state of the... | |
 | Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - 1849 - 708 páginas
...eye-sight fails me most dreadfully. I firmly believe that, in a very few years. 1 shall be stone blind. It is this only, of all my maladies, that makes me unhappy; but God's will be done. If 1 am successful against the French, I shall ask my retreat; and if I am not, I hope I shall never live... | |
 | Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - 1849 - 710 páginas
...eye-sight fails me most dreadfully. I firmly believe that, in a very few years. 1 shall be stone blind. It is this only, of all my maladies, that makes me unhappy; but God's will be done. If 1 am successful against the French, I shall ask my retreat ; and if I am not, I hope I shall never... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1897 - 524 páginas
...feared also blindness. " My eyesight fails me most dreadfully," he writes to his old friend Davison. " I firmly believe that, in a very few years, I shall...maladies, that makes me unhappy; but God's will be done." The first winter was unusually severe, and during it was added, to his official cares and personal... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1897 - 540 páginas
...feared also blindness. " My eyesight fails me most dreadfully," he writes to his old friend Davison. " I firmly believe that, in a very few years, I shall...maladies, that makes me unhappy ; but God's will be done." The first winter was unusually severe, and during it was added, to his official cares and personal... | |
 | Harold Winter Hodges, Edward Arthur Hughes - 1922 - 260 páginas
...always sea-sick. But, my dear friend, my eye-sight fails me most dreadfully: I firmly believe that in a few years I shall be stoneblind; it is this only of...maladies that makes me unhappy; but God's will be done. (4) Nelson to Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Morice Pole, Bart. (Nicolas, Dispatches and Letters of Lord... | |
 | Harold Winter Hodges, Edward Arthur Hughes - 1922 - 260 páginas
...always sea-sick. But, my dear friend, my eye-sight fails me most dreadfully: I firmly believe that in a few years I shall be stoneblind; it is this only of...maladies that makes me unhappy; but God's will be done. (A) Nelson to Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Morice Pole, Bart. (Nicolas, Dispatches and Letters of Lord... | |
 | Edgar Vincent - 2003 - 654 páginas
...eyesight fails me most dreadfully. I firmly believe that in a very few years, I shall be stone blind. It is this only, of all my maladies, that makes me...and if I am not, I hope I shall never live to see it.'1 A few days later, writing to his brother William he conveyed an even deeper sense of physical... | |
 | Noel Mostert - 2008 - 800 páginas
...eyesight fails me most dreadfully. I firmly believe that, in a very few years, I shall be stone blind. It is this only, of all my maladies, that makes me unhappy.' He had reason for his fear, for the intensive post-mortem on him after Trafalgar was to confirm that... | |
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A natural anxiety of course must attend my station ; but, my dear friend, my eyesight fails me most dreadfully ; I firmly believe that in a very few years I shall be stone blind. It is this only of all my maladies that makes me unhappy ; but God's will... 