 | Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange - 1886 - 398 trang
...storm in which his fleet was much damaged, and attributes his preservation to the mercy of God : — ' I believe firmly it was the Almighty's goodness to...I hope it has made me a better officer, as I feel it has made me a better man. I kiss with all humility the rod. Figure to yourself, on Sunday evening,... | |
 | Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange - 1886 - 390 trang
...storm in which his fleet was much damaged, and attributes his preservation to the mercy of God : — ' I believe firmly it was the Almighty's goodness to...I hope it has made me a better officer, as I feel it has made me a better man. I kiss with all humility the rod. Figure to yourself, on Sunday evening,... | |
 | George Lathom Browne - 1891 - 576 trang
...Vanguard, ISLAND OF ST. PETER'S, SARDINIA, Mai 24, 1798. " MY DEAREST FANNY, — I ought not to call what has happened to the Vanguard by the cold name of accident : I believe firmly, that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity. I hope it has made me a better... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1897 - 572 trang
...and my pride was too great for man." To his wife he wrote in the same strain : " I ought not to call what has happened to the Vanguard by the cold name of accident ; I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity." Vanity was rather a hard name... | |
 | Edward Kirk Rawson - 1899 - 498 trang
...that the meanest frigate out of France would have been a very unwelcome guest. ... I ought not to call what has happened to the Vanguard by the cold name of accident; I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity." Nevertheless he kept himself well... | |
 | William Henry Fitchett - 1900 - 416 trang
...name of accident." " I believe firmly," he wrote with characteristic self-frankness to his wife, "that it was the Almighty's goodness to check my consummate...confident it has made me a better man. Figure to yourself a vain man, on Sunday evening at sunset, walking in his cabin with a squadron about him who looked... | |
 | Esther Meynell - 1910 - 382 trang
...Wife of a Storm and its Consequences. " Vanguard" May 24, 1798. MY DEAREST FANNY, I ought not to call what has happened to the Vanguard by the cold name of accident : I believe firmly, that it was the Almighty's goodness to check my consummate vanity. I hope it has made me a better Officer,... | |
 | Edgar Vincent - 2003 - 654 trang
...Vanguard only two months previously. Instead he blamed himself. To Fanny he wrote, I ought not to call what has happened to the Vanguard by the cold name of accident; I believe firmly, that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity. I hope it has made me a better... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1814 - 788 trang
...ambition, subjected to a very humbling sense of weakness under divine superiority. ' " 1 ought not to call what has happened to the Vanguard by the cold name...it has made me a better man. Figure to yourself, on ttunday evening, at sunset, a vain man walking in hi* cabin, with a squadron around him, who looked... | |
 | Anonymous - 1810 - 560 trang
...remainder of their lives. ' I ought not,' says the admiral writing to his wife, ' I ought not to call what has happened to the Vanguard by the cold name...Almighty's goodness to check my consummate vanity. Figure to yourself, on Sunday evening at sun-set, a vain man walking in his cabin, with a squadron... | |
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happened to the Vanguard by -the cold " name of accident: I believe firmly it was " the Almighty's goodness, to check my 
