 | Edmund Burke - History - 1853 - 876 pages
...afternoon. Altogether, we were 80 hours in the small boat, ^during the whole of which anxious time there was nothing either to eat or drink ; but, notwithstanding,...attentive to me throughout this trying and distressing seene ; but the fireman, Attwood, particularly so : he kindly bound up my feet in handkerchiefs, and... | |
 | Books - 1853 - 858 pages
...afternoon. Altogether, we were 30 hours in the small boat, during the whole of which anxious time there wag nothing either to eat or drink ; but, notwithstanding,...placed something round my head, to protect me as far as was able from the inclemency of the weather." Afortnightelapsed, and it seemed that by the recovery... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1853 - 994 pages
...Monday afternoon. Altogether, we were 30 hours in the small boat, during the whole of which anxious time there was nothing either to eat or drink ; but, notwithstanding,...Attwood, particularly so : he kindly bound up my feet in handkerchicfs, and placed something round my head, to protect me as far as was able from the inclemency... | |
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Altogether, we were 30 hours in the small boat, during the whole of which anxious time there was nothing either to eat or drink ; but, notwithstanding, the gallant fellows who had so laboriously exerted themselves to save our lives, uttered not a murmur.... 