Alterthum und Gegenwart: gesammelte Reden und Vorträge, Band 2

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Wilhelm Hertz, 1882 - 383 Seiten
 

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Seite 312 - Nelson was the man to love" said Captain Pulteney Malcolm, who knew intimately both him and Wellington. " I received Captain Leake," Nelson himself says, speaking of an army officer on a special mission to the Mediterranean, " with that openness which was necessary to make myself as well acquainted with him in three days, as others might do in as many years. I have given him all the knowledge of the men, their views, &c. &c., as far as I have been able to form a judgment.
Seite 314 - ... In pursuit of the same objects, you will pay particular attention to the general geography of Greece, with a view to acquire for the British Government and nation a more accurate knowledge than has yet been attained, of this important and interesting country. But this object must only be pursued in subordination to the main design of your mission, from which it must not be allowed to divert your attention.
Seite 317 - ... greatest confidence : — and your Majesty may consider it as coming from my own mouth. " I entreat your Majesty to take into your serious consideration what he shall tell you. And I humbly hope that your Majesty will send him back with the pleasing intelligence of the accomplishment of my desires. " Of the greatest of the Kings of Europe, — the Monarch who rules over the ocean, — the Chief of the Sovereigns of the Religion of Jesus, — the greatest in majesty and power, — the mighty Protector...
Seite 307 - A Brief Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Late Lieutenant-Colonel William Martin Leake, FRS, London: privately published, 1864.
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