 | sir William Beatty - 1807 - 114 pages
...wounded on that deck, and these by musket-balls. 29 board some one of their ships." Lord NELSON answered, "I cannot help it: it does not signify which we run...of; go on board which you please; take your choice." AT twenty minutes past twelve, the tiller-ropes being shot away, Mr. ATKINSON, the Muster, was ordered... | |
 | William James - Great Britain - 1837 - 408 pages
...Nelson the impracticability of passing through the line without running on board one of the ships. His lordship quickly replied, " I cannot help it :...board of. Go on board which you please: take your choice."f At this moment, such had been the effect of the heavy and unremitting fire to which she had... | |
 | Paul Harris Nicolas - 1845 - 408 pages
...passing through the line without running on board one of the ships, his lordship quickly replied, " It does not signify which we run on board of. Go on board of which you please, — take your choice." It was about one o'clock when the sixty-eight pounder on... | |
 | Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1846 - 864 pages
...Nelson the impracticability of passing through the Line without running on board one of the ships. His Lordship quickly replied, ' I cannot help it:...Go on board which you please : take your choice.' At this moment, such had been the effect of the heavy and unremitting fire to which she had so long... | |
 | Joseph ALLEN (of Greenwich Hospital.) - 1853 - 290 pages
...injured. Nelson smiled, and said, " This is too warm work to last long, Hardy." Captain Hardy remarked the impossibility of getting through the cluster of...this time the Victory (whose sails were hanging in tatters) had lost full fifty men killed and wounded ; but it was now her turn to begin. Having at length... | |
 | J. Bradshawe Walker - 1853 - 166 pages
...of getting through the cluster of ships ahead without running foul of one of them; to which Nelaon quickly replied, 'I cannot help it, it does not signify which we run on board of; go on board which you please—-take your choice.' By this time, the Victory (whose sails were hanging in ribands) had lost... | |
 | William James - 1859 - 548 pages
...Lord Nelson the impracticablity of passing through the line without running on board one of the ships. His lordship quickly replied, "I cannot help it: it...board of. Go on board which you please : take your choice."2 At this moment, such had been the effect of the heavy and unremitting fire to which she had... | |
 | Charles Clement Cotterill - Naval art and science - 1868 - 380 pages
...enemy's line without running on board one of the ships. ' I can't help it,' said Nelson ; ' it doesn't signify which we run on board of. Go on board which you please ; take your choice.' Already the Victory had lost twenty officers and men killed, and thirty wounded, and Nelson (we may... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1868 - 314 pages
...observed that it would be impossible to get through them without running foul of one of them. Nelson replied, " I cannot help it ! it does not signify which we run on board of ; go onboard which you please; take your choice." But now at close quarters with the enemy it was the hitherto... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1869 - 638 pages
...observed that it would be impossible to get through them without running foul of one of them. Nelson replied, " I cannot help it ! it does not signify...go on board which you please ; take your choice." But now at close quarters with the enemy it was the hitherto much-enduring Victory's turn to begin... | |
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I cannot help it, it does not signify which we run on board of. Go on board which you please: take your choice. 
