 | James Harrison (biographer of Nelson.) - 1806 - 522 Seiten
...I think handsome, I left Revel on Sunday the " 17th, and here I am. From all the Russian officers " at Revel, I received the most attentive behaviour;...answer as I was. Sir Hyde Parker's letter on " the release of the British merchant ships has not " been answered. I hope, all is right: but seamen are... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1813 - 306 Seiten
...right," said he, writing to our ambassador at Berlin ; " but seamen are but bad " negotiators, for we put to issue in five " minutes what diplomatic forms would be « five months doing." On his way down the Baltic, however, he met the Russian admiral Tchitchagof, whom the emperor, in reply... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1830 - 354 Seiten
...right," said he, writing to our ambassador at Berlin ; but seamen are but bad negotiators ; for we put to issue in five minutes what diplomatic forms would be five months doing." On his way down the Baltic, however, he met the Russian admiral Tchitchagof, whom the emperor, in reply... | |
 | 1843 - 320 Seiten
...right," said he, 'writing to our ambassador at Berlin ; but seamen are but bad negotiators ; "for we put to issue in five minutes what diplomatic forms would be five months doing." On his way down the Baltic, however, he met the Russian admiral Tchitchagof, whom the emperor, in reply... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount), Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1845 - 604 Seiten
...way I think handsome, I left Revel on Sunday the 17th, and here I am. From all the Russian Officers at Revel, I received the most attentive behaviour,...issue in five minutes what Diplomatic forms would he five months doing — I shall have a frequent communication with Rostock, if our stay in the Baltic... | |
 | 1847 - 202 Seiten
...right," Nelson had written to our ambassador at Berlin ; " but seamen are bad negotiators ; for we put to issue in five minutes what diplomatic forms would be five months in doing." In a very few days, indeed, all was on the point of being settled. On the 26th of May Nelson's... | |
 | William Freke Williams - 1854 - 818 Seiten
...this transaction, " I hope all is right," he said, "but seamen are but bad negotiators; for we put to issue in five minutes what diplomatic forms would be five months doing." While at anchor off Rostock, he received a despatch from the Russian court, containing the intelligence... | |
 | William Freke Williams - 1864 - 786 Seiten
...this transaction, " I hope all is right," he said, "but seamen are but bad negotiators; for we put to issue in five minutes what diplomatic forms would be five months doing." While at anchor off Rostock, he received a despatch from the Russian court, containing the intelligence... | |
 | St. Andrew's Church (Headington, Oxford, England) - 1882 - 428 Seiten
...The tedious formalities of hair-splitting diplomatists were hateful to a mind like Nelson's. ' We put to issue in five minutes what diplomatic forms would be five months in doing.' . •'. . . . :lj ' There were a contempt for mere riches and a passion for fame in him.... | |
 | St. Andrew's Church (Headington, Oxford, England) - 1882 - 428 Seiten
...The tedious formalities of hair-splitting diplomatists were hateful to a mind like Nelson's. ' We put to issue in five minutes what diplomatic forms would be five months in doing.' . •'. . . . :lj ' There were a contempt for mere riches and a passion for fame in him.... | |
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I hope all is right," said he, writing to our Ambassador at Berlin; "but seamen are but bad negotiators; for we put to issue in five minutes what diplomatic forms would be five months doing. 
