| Sir John Carr - 1805 - 526 pagina’s
...good-humour of a visitor, and partook of some refreshment with the Crown Prince. During the repast Lord Nelson spoke in raptures of the bravery of the...This heroic youth had volunteered the command of a praam, which is a sort of raft, carrying six small cannon, and manned with twenty-four men, who pushed... | |
| Sir John Carr - 1805 - 314 pagina’s
...good humour of a visitor, and partook of some refreshment with the Crown Prince. During the repast, Lord Nelson spoke in raptures of the bravery of the...This heroic youth had volunteered the command of a praam, which is a sort of raft, carrying six small cannon, and manned with twenty-four men, who pushed... | |
| 1805 - 456 pagina’s
...to be the gallant young Welmoes, a strippling of seventeen ; the British hero embraced him with ttte enthusiasm of a brother, and delicately intimated...service.' This heroic youth had volunteered the command of it praam, which is a sort of • raft, carrying six small cannon, and manned with twenty-four men,... | |
| James Stanier Clarke, Stephen Jones, John Jones - 1805 - 584 pagina’s
...Admiral ; to which the Prince very happily replied, " If, my Lord, I were to make all my brave Oificers Admirals, I should have no Captains or Lieutenants in my service." This heroic youth had volunteered tin- command of a Praam,, which is a sort of raft, carrying six small cannon, and manned with twenty-four... | |
| Sir John Carr - 1806 - 342 pagina’s
...to the Prince that he ought to make him an admiral, to which the Prince very happily replied, " Ifr my Lord, I were to make all my brave officers admirals,...service." This heroic youth had volunteered the command of ;». praam, which is a sort of raft, carrying six small cannon, ind manned with twenty-four men who... | |
| James Harrison (biographer of Nelson.) - 1806 - 522 pagina’s
...intimated, that he ought to be made an admiral. The crown prince, with peculiar felicity, instantly replied — " If, my lord, I were to make all my brave...captains or lieutenants " in my service." This heroic stripling had volunteered the command of a sort of raft, called a praam, carrying twenty-four guns,... | |
| 1806 - 502 pagina’s
...of a brother, and delicately intimated to the Prince that he ought to make him an admiral ; to whicb the Prince very happily replied, " If, my Lord, I...admirals, I should have no captains or lieutenants in lay service." '• pp. 47 — 5O. Whose heart is not harrowed up by this display of the tragical effects... | |
| 1806 - 540 pagina’s
...and delicately intirnaled o the Prince that he ought to make him an admiral, lo which the Prince vey happily replied, ' If my Lord, I were to make all my brave officers adminK, I fliould have no captains or IK utenants in my fervice.' This heroic yoith. had volunteered... | |
| Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pagina’s
...prince, that he ought to make him an admiral; to which the prince replied, " If, my lord, I were to mate all my brave officers admirals, I should have no captains or lieutenants in my service." Th youth*, however, received a medallion, and was appointed to the command of one of ttte royal yatchts.... | |
| Robert Southey - 1813 - 306 pagina’s
...told the prince, tliat he ought to be made an admiral. The prince replied : " If, my tf lord, I am to make all my brave officers " admirals, I should have no captains or " lieutenants in my service." The Sympathy of the Danes for their countrymen who had bled in their defence, was not weakened by distance... | |
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