 | Sir John Carr - Baltic Sea - 1805 - 314 pages
...with the enthusiasm of a brother, and delicately intimated to the Prince that he ought to make him an admiral; to which the Prince very happily replied,...This heroic youth had volunteered the command of a praam, which is a sort of raft, carrying six small cannon, and manned with twenty-four men, who pushed... | |
 | James Harrison (biographer of Nelson.) - 1806 - 522 pages
...intimated, that he ought to be made an admiral. The crown prince, with peculiar felicity, instantly replied —" If, my lord, I were to make all my brave...captains or lieutenants " in my service." This heroic stripling had volunteered the command of a sort of raft, called a praam, carrying twenty-four guns,... | |
 | 1806 - 540 pages
...and delicately intimated о the Prince that he ought to make him nn admiral,to which the Prince ve~y happily replied, ' If my Lord, I were to make all my brave officers admires, I fliould have no captains or li< alertants in my fervice.' This heroic yotlh, had volunteered... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pages
...prince, that he ought to make him an admiral; to which the prince replied, " If, my lord, I were to mate all my brave officers admirals, I should have no captains or lieutenants in my service." Th youth*, however, received a medallion, and was appointed to the command of one of ttte royal yatchts.... | |
 | Robert Southey - Admirals - 1827 - 310 pages
...youth, told the prince that he ought to be made an admiral. The prince replied: " If, my " lord, I am to make all my brave officers " admirals, I should have no captains or " lieutenants in my service." The sympathy of the Danes for their countrymen, who had bled in their defence, was not weakened by... | |
 | Old Sailor - Naval biography - 1826 - 534 pages
...with the enthusiasm of a brother, and delicately intimated to the Prince that.he ought to make him an admiral, to which the Prince very happily replied,....This heroic youth had volunteered the command of a praam, which is a sort of a raft, carrying six small cannon, and manned with twenty-four men, who pushed... | |
 | Robert Southey - Admirals - 1830 - 354 pages
...youth, told the prince that he ought to be made an admiral. The prince replied ; " If, my lord, I am to make all my brave officers admirals, I should have no captains or lieutenants in my service." The sympathy of the Danes for their countrymen who had bled in their defence was not weakened by distance... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1835 - 830 pages
...ashore; and said to the crown prince he should make him an admiral. " If, my lord," replied the prince, " I were to make all my brave officers admirals, I should have no captains or lieutenants in my service."—\aval Chronicle, xiv. 398. there were 210 killed and wounded ; she had to sup- CHAP. port... | |
 | Robert Southey - Admirals - 1835 - 342 pages
...youth, told the prince that he ought to be made an admiral. The prince replied ; " If, my lord, I am to make all my brave, officers admirals, I should have no captains or lieutenants in my service." to their country: some, with pardonable sophistry, represented the advantage of the day as on their... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount), Matthew Henry Barker - 1836 - 500 pages
...made an admiral. " My lord," replied his royal highness, with peculiar felicity, " if I were to maks all my brave officers admirals, I should have no captains or lieutenants in my service." The crown prince, however, afterwards presented this youth with a medallion commemorative of his gallantry,... | |
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admiral; to which the prince very happily replied, * If, my lord, I were to make all my brave officers admirals, I should have no captains or lieutenants in my service/ This heroic youth had volunteered the command of a 
