 | J. R. Miller - Great Britain - 1825 - 490 pages
...endeavoured, but in vain, to prevail upon him to take them olf ; lo all their entreaties he replied — " In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them." The survivors were gratified with the thanks of both houses of parliament ; gold medala vrere awarded... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...his life would be exposed if he appeared on deck with these insignia visible upon him, he replied: " In honour I gained them ; and in honour I will die with them." When Captain Blackwood took leave of him to proceed on board his own ship, Nelson shook him by the... | |
 | Old Humphrey - Sailors - 1842 - 366 pages
...should be too plainly seen by the enemy, but they were afraid to tell him so, because he had said, ' In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.' " " 0 dear ! he should not have worn his stars.''' " The eifect produced by the signal given by Lord... | |
 | World history - 1844 - 580 pages
...different orders with which he was invested ; the officers on board lamented such a display, which it was evident would expose him to certain death from the...heard to say, " In honour I gained them, and in honour 1 will die with them." He was in good spirits, but calm and sedate ; not in that exhilaration with... | |
 | World history - 1844 - 588 pages
...officers on board lamented such a display, which it was evident would expose him to certain death 50 393 from the enemy's marksmen ; but they knew it was in...heard to say, " In honour I gained them, and in honour 1 will die with them." He was in good spirits, but calm and sedate ; not in that exhilaration with... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - History - 1845 - 466 pages
...; he having said on a former occasion, when requested to change his dress or to cover his stars, " In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them." The truth is, that Nelson wore on the day of Trafalgar the same coat which he had commonly worn for... | |
 | Jules Michelet - Europe - 1847 - 440 pages
...; he having said on a former occasion, when requested to change his dress or to cover his stars, " In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them." The truth is, that Nelson wore on the day of Trafalgar the same coat which he had commonly worn for... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - History - 1849 - 336 pages
...; he having said on a former occasion, when requested to change his dress or to cover his stars, " In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them." The truth is, that Nelson wore on the day of Trafalgar the same coat which he had commonly worn for... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Books and reading - 1851 - 332 pages
...ofa portunity of his officers, entreating coat' him to conceal the ftars on his breaft, by faying, " In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them." This is the heroic ftature of the Great Style. Tacitus could not have put a finer fentiment into the... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 512 pages
...his life would be exposed if he appeared on deck with these insignia visible upon him, he replied. " In honour I gained them ; and in honour I will die with them." When Captain Blackwood took leave of him to proceed on board his own ship, Nelson shook him by the... | |
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In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them." The truth is, that Nelson wore on the day of Trafalgar the same coat which he had commonly worn for weeks, on which the order of the Bath was embroidered, as was then usual. 
