 | 1844 - 574 ページ
...' I am sorry that you should have to differ with , ' (Q. St Vincent;) but had it been Christmas-day instead of ' Sunday, I would have executed them —...might have been hatched by a Sunday's grog ; now, your dis' cipline is safe. 1 talked to our people, and I hope with good ' effect ; indeed they seem a very... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 600 ページ
...sorry that you shoul< have to differ with , ((¿. St. Vin cent;) but had it been Christmas-day insti-a of Sunday, I would have executed them — we know not what might have been hatch ed by a Sunday's grog ; now, your disci pline is safe. I talked to our people, and hope with... | |
 | 1886 - 668 ページ
...Sir R. Calder he said, ' I am ' sorry that you should have to differ with Vice-Admiral ' Thompson, but had it been Christmas Day instead of Sunday ' I would have executed them.' Caracciolo was, in Nelson's eyes, a mutineer and a rebel taken red-handed. What had the English admiral... | |
 | John Knox Laughton - 1895 - 264 ページ
...Captain of the Fleet he added : " I am sorry that you should have to differ with Vice-Admiral Thompson ; but had it been Christmas Day instead of Sunday I...by a Sunday's grog : now your discipline is safe." More congenial work was, however, preparing for him. The Admiral had received intelligence that a richlyladen... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1897 - 572 ページ
...hanging a convicted mutineer on Sunday. " Had it been Christmas Day instead of Sunday," wrote Nelson, " I would have executed them. We know not what might...by a Sunday's grog: now your discipline is safe." His glorious reputation and his known kindly character, supported by that of his captain, made mutiny... | |
 | John Knox Laughton - 1900 - 326 ページ
...Captain of the Fleet he added : " I am sorry that you should have to differ with Vice-Admiral Thompson ; but had it been Christmas Day instead of Sunday I...by a Sunday's grog : now your discipline is safe." More congenial work was, however, preparing for him. The Admiral had received intelligence that a richlyladen... | |
 | Walter Vernon Anson - 1913 - 430 ページ
...of, for in it he says : " I am sorry you should have occasion to differ with any of your admirals, but, had it been Christmas Day instead of Sunday, I would have executed them ; your discipline is sure so far. I talked to our people, and, I hope, with good effect; indeed, they... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1916 - 376 ページ
...Nelson, on the other hand, supported him warmly. "Had It been Christmas day Instead of Sunday," he wrote, "I would have executed them. We know not what might have been hatched by a Sunday's grog." Nelson's remarks at this time are quoted by his biographers in proof that "the iron grip beneath the... | |
 | John Knox Laughton - 1919 - 260 ページ
...Captain of the Fleet he added : " I am sorry that you should have to differ with Vice-Admiral Thompson ; but had it been Christmas Day instead of Sunday I...by a Sunday's grog : now your discipline is safe." More congenial work was, however, preparing for him. The Admiral had received intelligence that a richlyladen... | |
 | Edgar Vincent - 2003 - 654 ページ
...political objectives of the ringleaders at the Nore, but was in no doubt where he stood on mutiny. 'Had it been Christmas Day instead of Sunday, I would have executed them.'14 When St Vincent received information that the El Principe ¿'Asturias, a rich Spanish merchantman... | |
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Thompson ; but had it been Christmas Day instead of Sunday I would have executed them. We know not what might have been hatched by a Sunday's grog : now your discipline is safe. 
