| Dr. Doran (John) - 1881 - 368 Seiten
...Nelson's wife by her first marriage, he thus simply describes in one of his letters :—' Lady Hamilton has been wonderfully kind and good to Josiah. She is a young woman of amiable man ners, and who does honour to the station to which she is raised.' The early attachment entertained... | |
| Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - 1883 - 406 Seiten
...fresh and strong. Of Lady Hamilton he wrote to his wife : " She has been wonderfully good and kind to Josiah. She is a young woman of amiable manners, and who does honour to the station to which, she has been raised." When the curtain next rises the revolutionary spirit was strong everywhere, and the... | |
| 1888 - 962 Seiten
...There, for the first time, he met Lady Hamilton, whom he describes, in a letter to Mrs Nelson, as " a young woman of amiable manners, and who does honour to the station to which she is raised." * The only thing which appears to have impressed itself on his mind was, that she had been " wonderfully... | |
| John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1888 - 366 Seiten
...by an extremely beautiful and charming• woman. ' Lady Hamilton,' Nelson wrote home to his wife, ' has been wonderfully kind and good to Josiah. She is a young woman of amiable manners, who does honour to the station to which she is raised ' — a judgu2 munt in which Josiah had every... | |
| George Lathom Browne - 1891 - 576 Seiten
...Lady Hamilton has been wonderful good and kind to Josiah. She is a young woman of amiable manners, who does honour to the station to which she is raised. I am to carry Lord Hood six thousand troops from hence"2 (Despatches, vol. ip 326). In a letter from William Hoste to his father we have a 1 Lord Hood... | |
| Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1897 - 564 Seiten
..."Lady Hamilton," he writes to his wife, "has been wonderfully kind and good to Josiah [his step-son]. She is a young woman of amiable manners, and who does honour to the station to which she is raised." His mind was then too full of what was to be done ; not as after the Nile, when, unstrung by reaction... | |
| 1897 - 772 Seiten
...immediately captured by Emma's charms. To his wife he could find no more to say about her than this : " She is a young woman of amiable manners, and who does honour to the station in which she is raised." Raised from what ? The subject is not savoury, but it cannot be shirked. She... | |
| Walter Sydney Sichel - 1905 - 698 Seiten
...already in our correspondence of September 1798. 1 ' Lady Hamilton has been wonderfully good and kind to Josiah. She is a young woman of amiable manners,...does honour to the station to which she is raised." — Pettigrcw, vol. ip 42. -' 3 Morrison MS. 226, Sept. 24, 1793. 1 Ibid. 245, Aug. 31, 1794. Diana... | |
| Esther Meynell - 1907 - 526 Seiten
...comments LADY HAMILTON AS KM MA GKOKGE KUMNEV on her in a cool and detached manner to his wife : " She is a young woman of amiable manners, and who does honour to the station to which she is raised." He mentions that she has been "wonderfully good and kind" to his stepson, Josiah Nisbet. Nothing more.... | |
| Esther Meynell - 1912 - 198 Seiten
...Nelson's comment on Lady Hamilton to his wife after the meeting is quite detached and indifferent, "she is a young woman of amiable manners, and who...does honour to the station to which she is raised." Sir William Hamilton appears to have been more impressed by Nelson's qualities after this first meeting... | |
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