 | Logan Marshall - 1914 - 478 Seiten
...out, "Now damn me if I do!" Turning to Captain Foley, who stood near him, he said: "Foley, you know I have only one eye; I have a right to be blind sometimes." He raised his telescope, applied it to his blind eye, and said: "I really do not see the signal." On... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1914 - 406 Seiten
...out, "Now damn me if I do!" Turning to Captain Foley, who stood near him, he said: "Foley, you know I have only one eye; I have a right to be blind sometimes." He raised his telescope, applied it to his blind eye, and said: "I really do not see the signal." On... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1919 - 406 Seiten
...joke. " Leave off action ! " he said ; " Now damn me if I do." Then he said to his flag captain : " You know, Foley, I have only one eye ; I have a right to be blind sometimes " — and putting the glass to his blind eye he remarked, " I really do not see the signal." So the action went... | |
 | William Lawson Grant - 1926 - 622 Seiten
...(Signed) Nelson and Bronte." 'When the signal came from Admiral Parker, Nelson said to his captain, "You know Foley I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes," and then putting the glass to his blind eye he exclaimed, I really do not see the signal." It was therefore... | |
 | Duncan Campbell Scott - 1926 - 668 Seiten
...(Signed) Nelson and Bronte." 'When the signal came from Admiral Parker, Nelson said to his captain, "You know Foley I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes," and then putting the glass to his blind eye he exclaimed, I really do not see the signal." It was therefore... | |
 | Weldon Thornton - 1968 - 568 Seiten
...by his men that the signal for withdrawal had been hoisted by the commander-in-chief, Nelson said, " 'I have only one eye— I have a right to be blind sometimes': —and then, putting the glass to his blind eye, in that mood of mind which sports with bitterness, he exclaimed,... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - 1988 - 704 Seiten
...his Life of Nelson (London, 1813), chapter 7, records the story of Nelson's refusal: "Nelson said, 'I have only one eye — I have a right to be blind sometimes': — and then, putting the glass to his blind eye . . . he exclaimed, 'I really do not see the signal!'" Nelson's... | |
 | 2003 - 1468 Seiten
...would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. — WOODY ALLEN I have only one eye; I have a right to be blind sometimes. . . I really did not see the signal. — LORD NELSON NOUNS 1 sign, symbol, signification, meaning,... | |
 | Richard Earl Hansen - 1996 - 481 Seiten
...Ocean some thousand kilometers south of the Chagos Archipelago had just passed beneath the Columbia. I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes. . . I really do not see the signal. Lord Nelson, at the Battle of Copenhagen. Southey, Life of Nelson,... | |
 | Peter Barss - 1998 - 410 Seiten
...the heading for this topic denotes the nature of the injury, rather than a specific external cause. I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes . . . I really do not see the signal. — Horatio Nelson, At the battle of Copenhagen, 1801, in Life... | |
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