The Life Of Nelson Vol 1 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from The Life of Nelson, Vol. 1 A. Like method of treatment has been pursued in regard to that purely external part of Nelson's career in which are embraced his military actions, as well as his public and private life. The same aim is kept in view of showing clearly, not only what he did, but the principles which dominated his military thought, and guided his military actions, throughout his life; or, it may be, such changes as must inevit ably occur in the development of a man who truly lives This cannot be done satisfactorily without concentrating the evidence from time to time; and it is therefore a duty a writer owes to his readers, if they wish such acquaintance with his subject as he thinks he has succeeded in acquiringfor himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Life of Nelson Nelson's Birth and Boyhood - He is entered on beard the Raisonnable - Goes to the West Indies in a Merchant-ship; then serves in the Triumph - He sails in Capt. Phipp's Voyage of Discovery - Goes to the East Indies in the Seahorse, and returns in ill Health - Serves as acting Lieutenant in the Worcester, and is made Lieustenant into the Lowestoffe, Commander in the Badger Brig, and Post into the Hinchinbrook - Expedition on against the Spanish Main - Sent to the South Seas in the Albermarle - Services during the American War. Horatio, son of Edmund anu Catharine Nelson, was born Sept. 29, 1758, in the parsonage house of Burnham Thorpe, a village in the county of Norfolk, of which his father was rector. The maiden name of his mother was Suckling; her grandmother was an elder sister of Sir Robert Walpole, and this child was named after his grandfather, the first Lord Walpole. Mrs. Nelson died in l767, leaving eight, out of eleen, children. Her brother, Capt. Maurice Suckling, of the navy, visited the widower upon this event, and promised to take care of one of the boys. Three years afterward, when Horatio was only twelve years of age, being at home during the Christmas holydays, he read in the county newspaper that his uncle was appointed to the Raisonnable, of 64 guns. "Do William," said he to a brother who was two years older than himself, "write to my father, and tell him I should like to go to sea with uncle Maurice." Mr. Nelson was then at Bath, whither he had gone for the recovery of his health; his circumstances were straitened, and he had no prospect of ever seeing them bettered: he knew that it was the wish of providing for himself by which Horatio was chiefly actuated; and did not oppose his resolution: he understood also the boy's character, and always said, that in whatever station he might be placed, he would climb, if possible, to the very top of the tree. Accordingly, Capt. Suckling was written to. "What," said he in his answer, "has poor Horatio done, who is so weak, that he, above all the rest, should be sent to rough it out at sea? But let him come, and the first time we go into action, a cannon ball may knock off his head, and provide for him at once." It is manifest from these words, that Horatio was not the boy when his uncle would have chosen to bring up in his own profession. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Southey's Life of Nelson The Life of Nelson was completed this morning (feb. I, This is a subject which I should never have dreamt of touching, if it had not been thrust upon me. I have walked among sea-terms as carefully as a cat does among crockery; but if I have succeeded in making the narrative continuous and clear, - the very reverse of what it is in the lives before me, the materials are in themselves so full of character, so picturesque, and so sublime, that it cannot fail of being a good book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Pictures From the Life of Nelson Mahan's Nelson touches the other pole. It reads like a novel, and Cooper could not have made it more interesting. It, too, is a revelation in its way, and it is not only a very great monument to the author's industry, it is packed full of everything that has been said about Nelson at all trustworthy, and it is also one of the finest literary compliments the United States have ever paid this country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Southey's Life of Nelson: Edited With Introduction and Notes It is unnecessary \to take too seriously his own statement that, of all the attractions that Oxford offered, he availed himself only of Swimming and boating, paying as little regard to serious study as he had done at Westminster. To such an omnivorous reader as Southey, the cut - and dried curricula of School and college must have seemed too narrow and restricted; and one who had revelled in Beau mont and Fletcher before the age Of eight could be trusted ten years later to feed his mind on strong meats, though they may not have been such as the dons recommended. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Nelson's Friendships, Vol. 1 of 2 Pettigrew's version lived when press denunciations of it had passed away, and unfortunately more recent writers have propagated his theories with even more vehemence and with additions though each intersperses, as it were involuntarily, the reasonable views of those men who entertained Opposite ideas to their own, and they quote Southey, Haslewood, and the immediate relatives of Lord Nelson, to the shattering of their own foundations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.