 I feel myself, my dear Lord, as anxious to get a medal or a step in the peerage as if I had never got either. If I succeeded, and burnt the Dutch fleet, probably medals and an earldom.  Naval officers - Page 141by Charles Benedict Davenport - 1919 - 236 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1846 - 864 pages
...possible for either the Board of Admiralty or any Member of it to be envious of any success attending I feel myself, my dear Lord, as anxious to get a Medal, ori step in the Peerage as if I never had got either,—for ' if itbta sin to covet glory, I am the... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1897 - 518 pages
...myself, my dear Lord," he wrote St. Vincent, relative to a projected undertaking on the Dutch coast, " as anxious to get a medal, or a step in the peerage...burnt the Dutch fleet, probably medals and an earldom. I must have had every desire to try the matter, regardless of the feelings of others; but I should... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - Admirals - 1897 - 512 pages
...myself, my dear Lord," he wrote St. Vincent, relative to a projected undertaking on the Dutch coast, " as anxious to get a medal, or a step in the peerage...burnt the Dutch fleet, probably medals and an earldom. I must have had every desire to try the matter, regardless of the feelings of others; but I should... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - Admirals - 1897 - 524 pages
...myself, my dear Lord," he wrote St. Vincent, relative to a projected undertaking on the Dutch coast, " as anxious to get a medal, or a step in the peerage...burnt the Dutch fleet, probably medals and an earldom. I must have had every desire to try the matter, regardless of the feelings of others; but I should... | |
 | John Horsley Mayo - Decorations of honor - 1897 - 454 pages
...high value on medals. In a letter to Lord St. Vincent, written on 23rd September, 1801, he says : ' I feel myself, my dear Lord, as anxious to get a medal as a step in the Peerage, as if I had never got either, for if it be a sin to court glory, I am the... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - Admirals - 1899 - 894 pages
...myself, my dear Lord," he wrote St. Vincent, relative to a projected undertaking on the Dutch coast, " as anxious to get a medal, or a step in the peerage...burnt the Dutch fleet, probably medals and an earldom. I must have had every desire to try the matter, regardless of the feelings of others; but I should... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - Admirals - 1899 - 948 pages
...myself, my dear Lord," he wrote St. Vincent, relative to a projected undertaking on the Dutch coast, "as anxious to get a medal, or a step in the peerage...burnt the Dutch fleet, probably medals and an earldom. I must have had every desire to try the matter, regardless of the feelings of others; but I should... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - Admirals - 1899 - 906 pages
...myself, my dear Lord," he wrote St. Vincent, relative to a projected undertaking on the Dutch coast, " as anxious to get a medal, or a step in the peerage...burnt the Dutch fleet, probably medals and an earldom. I must have had every desire to try the matter, regardless of the feelings of others; but I should... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - Admirals - 1899 - 896 pages
...myself, my dear Lord," he wrote St. Vincent, relative to a projected undertaking on the Dutch coast, "as anxious to get a medal, or a step in the peerage...burnt the Dutch fleet, probably medals and an earldom. I must have had every desire to try the matter, regardless of the feelings of others; but I should... | |
 | Edgar Vincent - History - 2003 - 654 pages
...one else could, and his friends at the Admiralty had folly enough to believe his impossible schemes.' I feel myself, my dear Lord, as anxious to get a Medal, or a step in the Peerage as if I never had got either, - for, 'if it be a sin to covet glory, I am the most offending soul alive,' -... | |
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