 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - Naval battles - 1919 - 406 pages
...the cabin, and there makes a codicil to his will, and writes his last prayer in his private diary. " May the Great God, whom I worship, grant to my Country,...great and glorious Victory ; and may no misconduct in anyone tarnish it, and may humanity after Victory be the predominant feature in the British Fleet.... | |
 | Julian Stafford Corbett - Trafalgar, Battle of, 1805 - 1919 - 362 pages
...French. " At seven," he wrote in the last entry in his Private Diary, " the enemy wearing in succession. May the Great God whom I worship grant to my country...of Europe in general a great and glorious Victory." He must have i Clarke and M'Arthur, ii. 146, and Nicolas, vii. 138. NELSON'S FIRST IDEA 405 thought,... | |
 | Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - English literature - 1924 - 942 pages
...of fourteen. Having seen that all was as it should be, Nelson retired to his cabin, and wrote this horse, — friend, foe, — in one red burial blent...Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between 1 French and Spanish. * Nelson's flagship. one tarnish it ; and may humanity after victory be the predominant... | |
 | James Cooper - Sermons, English - 1924 - 160 pages
...wrote in his private cabin in the Victory before the battle joined off the ' Cape of Laurels ' : ' May the great God, whom I worship, grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe, a great and glorious victory ; and may no misconduct of any one tarnish it ; and may humanity after... | |
 | Élie Halévy - Great Britain - 1924 - 604 pages
...retired into his cabin and composed the following prayer : " May the great God, whom I worship, grant my country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory. . . . Amen. Amen. Amen." ' Very different would have been the language and deaths of French mutineers... | |
 | Owen Aubrey Sherrard - Ambassadors' spouses - 1927 - 390 pages
...he drew up the famous Prayer and Codicil to his will, witnessed by Blackwood and Hardy. They ran : PRAYER " May the Great God, whom I worship, grant...great and glorious victory ; and may no misconduct hi any one tarnish it ; and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet.... | |
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May the Great God whom I worship, grant to my Country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious Victory; and may no misconduct in anyone tarnish it; and may humanity after Victory be the predominant feature in the British Fleet. 
