 | Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1846 - 560 pages
...went ten knots, I should not think it fast enough,) yet I would have you be assured that I know anil feel that the Superb does all which is possible for...I desire that you will not fret upon the occasion. I hope, and indeed feel confident, that very soon you will help me to secure the Majesteux.6 I think... | |
 | 1886 - 668 pages
...ten knots, I should not think it fast ' enough,) yet I would have you be assured that I know and ' feel that the " Superb " does all which is possible for a ship * to accomplish ; and I desire you will not fret upon the oc' casion.' Keats must have had a full heart on the 27th of May, and we... | |
 | George Lathom Browne - Admirals - 1891 - 576 pages
...McArthur, vol. iii. p. 96, and note. 18o5.] THE CHASE TO THE WEST INDIES. 301 assured that I know and feel that the Superb does all which is possible for...desire that you will not fret upon the occasion." * On the 4th of June his fleet was at anchor in Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes, and joined there by Rear-Admiral... | |
 | John Knox Laughton - Admirals - 1896 - 442 pages
...went ten s knots, I should not think it fast enough), yet I would have you be assured that I know and feel that the Superb does all which is possible for a ship to accomplish, and I desire you will not fret upon the occasion. ... I think we have been from Cape St. Vincent very fortunate,... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1897 - 518 pages
...went ten knots, I should not think it fast enough,) yet I would have you be assured that I know and feel that the Superb does all which is possible for...Keats, your most obliged and sincere friend, NELSON AND BUONTE. A week seems to have elapsed before he could get a suitable opportunity for sending this, and... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - Admirals - 1899 - 918 pages
...went ten knots, I shonld not think it fast enough.) yet I would have you be assured that I know and feel that the Superb does all which is possible for...27th of May, added : " Our passage, although not very qnick, has been far from a bad one ; " and he thought that they would gain fourteen days upon the allies.... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - Admirals - 1899 - 894 pages
...went ten knots, I should not think it fast enough.) yet I would have you be assured that I know and feel that the Superb does all which is possible for...dear Keats, your most obliged and sincere friend, NELSOX AND BRONTE. A week seems to have elapsed before he could get a suitable opportunity for sending... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - Naval art and science - 1908 - 434 pages
...that the Superb does not go as fast as I could wish. I would have you to be assured that I know and feel that the Superb does all which is possible for...accomplish; and I desire that you will not fret." " My dear Collingwood, I shall come out and make you a visit; not, my dear friend, to take your command... | |
 | James Richard Thursfield - Biography & Autobiography - 1909 - 446 pages
...ten knots I should not think we went fast enough), yet I would have you be assured that I know and feel that the Superb does all which is possible for...desire that you will not fret upon the occasion." For Calder, whom he disliked, his consideration was even more magnanimous. Calder, who had failed to... | |
 | Edward Fraser - Great Britain - 1910 - 428 pages
...warmly acknowledged Keats' devotion. " Be assured that I know and feel that the Superb does all which it is possible for a ship to accomplish, and I desire that you will not fret upon the occasion." So Nelson wrote to Keats after they had been a week at sea. Her crippled condition kept the Superb... | |
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I am fearful that you may think that the Superb does not go so fast as I could wish. However that may be, (for if we all went ten knots, I should not think it fast enough,) yet I would have you be assured that I know and feel that the Superb does all... 
