 | George Lathom Browne - 1891 - 576 Seiten
...of particularity which attracted my attention. I had never seen anything like it before, nor could I imagine who he was, nor what he came about. My doubts...enthusiasm, when speaking on professional subjects, showing me he was no common being." . Attempt on Turk's Island : — "As it would be a very little... | |
 | John Knox Laughton - 1895 - 264 Seiten
...which particularly attracted my notice ; for I had never seen anything like it before, nor could I imagine who he was, nor what he came about. My doubts...enthusiasm when speaking on professional subjects that showed he was no common being. Nelson after this went with us to the West Indies, and served under... | |
 | John Knox Laughton - 1896 - 442 Seiten
...anything like it before, nor could I imagine who he was nor what he came about. My doubts, however, were removed when Lord Hood introduced me to him. There...enthusiasm when speaking on professional subjects that showed he was no common being." In the following January, when Hood returned to the West Indies, at... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1897 - 572 Seiten
...which particularly attracted my notice ; for I had never seen anything like it before, nor could I imagine who he was, nor what he came about. My doubts...enthusiasm, when speaking on professional subjects, that showed he was no common being." The Countess of Minto, in her Life of Lord Minto, speaks of Nelson's... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1897 - 564 Seiten
...I had never seen anything like it before, nor could I imagine who he was, nor what he came alxiut. My doubts were, however, removed when Lord Hood introduced...enthusiasm, when speaking on professional subjects, that showed be was no common being." The Countess of Minto, in her Life of Lord Minto, speaks of Nelson's... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1899 - 894 Seiten
...which particularly attracted my notice ; for I had never seen anything like it before, nor could I imagine who he was, nor what he came about. My doubts...and conversation; and an enthusiasm, when speaking oa professional subjects, that showed he was no common being." The Countess of Miuto, in her Life of... | |
 | John Knox Laughton - 1900 - 326 Seiten
...which particularly attracted my notice ; for I had never seen anything like it before, nor could I imagine who he was, nor what he came about. My doubts...enthusiasm when speaking on professional subjects that showed he was no common being. Nelson after this went with us to the West Indies, and served under... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Walter Morris - 1906 - 1076 Seiten
...lank unpowdered hair, and a dress which " added to the general quaintness of his appearance," but " irresistibly pleasing in his address, and conversation,...enthusiasm, when speaking on professional subjects, that showed he was no common being." The Duke was not, perhaps, a man of uncommon powers of observation,... | |
 | John Knox Laughton - 1919 - 260 Seiten
...which particularly attracted my notice ; for I had never seen anything like it before, nor could I imagine who he was, nor what he came about. My doubts...enthusiasm when speaking on professional subjects that showed he was no common being. Nelson after this went with us to the West Indies, and served under... | |
 | Colin White - 2002 - 380 Seiten
...ever beheld,' whose old-fashioned uniform and pigtail made him look quaint. 'My doubts however were removed when Lord Hood introduced me to him. There...enthusiasm, when speaking on professional subjects, which showed he was no common being.'67 Fifteen years later, Lady Spencer, wife of the First Lord of... | |
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... hair was tied in a stiff Hessian tail, of an extraordinary length; the old-fashioned flaps of his waistcoat added to the general quaintness of his figure, and produced an appearance which particularly attracted my notice ; for I had never seen anything... 
