Author: Alexander John ScottPublisher:
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Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Recollections of the Life of the Rev A.J. Scott
Author: Alexander John ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Recollections of the Life of Rev. A.J. Scott, D.D., Lord Nelson's Chaplain
Author: Mrs. Alfred GattyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chaplains, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Memoirs of the Life of Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson
Author: Thomas Joseph PettigrewPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 698
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Memoirs of the Life of Vice-Admiral, Lord Viscount Nelson, K. B., Duke of Bronté, Etc., Etc., Etc
Author: Thomas Joseph PettigrewPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Memoirs of the Life of Vice-admiral Lord Viscount Nelson by Thomas Joseph Pettigrew
Author: Recollections of the life of the Rev. A. J. Scott, D. D.
Author: Nelson; the Public and Private Life of Horatio, Viscount Nelson
Author: George Lathom BrownePublisher:
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Category : Admirals
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Recollections of the Life of the Rev A. J. Scott
Author: AnonymousPublisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230094724
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 edition. Excerpt: ...Magnon, " utinam Nelsoni, ac Schotto, praetereaque nemini, misellulum illud hexastichum exhibuisses! in istiusmodi latebras non me conjecisses"--for it seems that some French officer, who had seen the lines, was offended by them. They are, however, as follows, and the reference to the hero's loss of limb is ingenious and the ver sification elegant: v " Ad Nelsonem, Franciscus Carbonius, Lat. eloq. professor. Centimanum, vir summe, Gygen quum trudere caelo Possis, quis tibi non pareat unimano? Laevam jura mari dantem, Niloque tremendam, Sequana captivis non vereatur aquis P Haw erit hmc, domitis regum domitoribus, una, Dextera cui sese conferat ipsa Jovis." VVe will not trouble the reader with other specimens of a similar character, but there are many such of unequal merit. Other festivals occurred afterwards at Maddalena, to which the spoils of the Barcelona sale were also made to contribute, in acknowledgment of the kind welcome always given by the inhabitants, when the fleet resorted to their excellent harbours. These became a favourite anchorage with the Admiral; and the sight of the ships passing on their route thither, or seeking the open sea again, often charmed the lonely philosopher of Longo Sardo from his studies. He thus rapturously concludes one of his letters to Dr. Scott: " The sentinel warns me that he sees you in the distance--I fling down my pen to seize eagerly a miserable pasteboard telescope, which can only very feebly aid my sight--but my heart flies far beyond my obscure glass, to present my most respectful homage to my Lord Duke Nelson, and to renew to you with ardour sentiments of the most profound respect." Dr. Scott was sent to Algiers from the fleet, on an.
Nelson's Surgeon
Author: Laurence BrocklissPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199287422
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
In the lead-up to the bicentenary of Trafalgar a number of important new studies have been published about the life of Nelson and his defeat of the Combined Fleet in 1805. Despite the significant role played by the health and fitness of the British crews in securing the victory, little has been written hitherto about the naval surgeon in the era of the long war against France. This book is intended to fill the gap. Sir William Beatty (1773-1842) was surgeon of the Victory atTrafalgar. An Ulsterman from Londonderry, he had joined the navy in 1791. Before being warranted to Nelson's flagship, Beatty had served upon ten other warships, and survived a yellow fever epidemic, court martial, and shipwreck to share in the capture of a Spanish treasure ship. After Trafalgar, hebecame Physician of the Channel Fleet, based at Plymouth, and eventually Physician to Greenwich Hospital, where he served until his retirement in 1838. As the book makes clear in drawing upon an extensive prosopographical database, Beatty's career until 1805 was representative of the experience of the approximately 2,000 naval surgeons who joined the navy in the course of the war.The first part of the biography provides a detailed and scholarly introduction to the professional education, training, and work of the naval surgeon. But after 1805 Beatty became a member of the service elite, and his career becomes interesting for other reasons. In the final decades of his life, Beatty was far more than a senior naval physician. As a Fellow of the Royal Society, director of the Clerical and Medical Insurance Company, and director of the London to Greenwich Railway, he wasa prominent figure in London's business and scientific community, who used his growing wealth to build a large collection of books and manuscripts. His later life is testimony to the much wider contribution that some naval and army medical officers made to the development of the new Britain of thenineteenth century. In Beatty's case, too, the contribution was original. By publishing in 1807 his carefully crafted Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson, he was instrumental in forging the myth of the hero's last hours, which has become a part of the national consciousness and has helped to define for generations the concept of Britishness.
Nelson's Letters to Lady Hamilton and Related Documents
Author: Marianne CzisnikPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000071685
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
This critical edition of Admiral Nelson’s letters to Lady Hamilton is to bring together the important letters of Nelson to Lady Hamilton that have only been published in parts over the last 200 years. Only by bringing the letters of Nelson to Lady Hamilton together is it possible to assess their relationship and to present certain insights into Nelson’s personality that are not revealed in his official correspondence. Thorough research into this side of Nelson’s personality and into the nature of his notorious and unconventional relationship with Lady Hamilton has been hampered in the past by a desire not to look too closely at Nelson’s personal morality. To a considerable extent their relationship was regarded as a challenge to traditional gender roles and it indeed did not conform to stereotypes that are usually attributed to men and women in a heterosexual relationship. Lady Hamilton was so obviously lacking in the subservience and passivity expected from women in that era that authors over the course of time started to exclude her in their accounts of the public sphere by reducing her to a private weakness of Nelson’s, who could be successful at sea, where he was far away from the enthralling influence of a manipulating woman. The letters in this edition testify how Admiral Nelson’s life at sea was not exclusively public nor was Lady Hamilton’s life ashore solely private. It also shows how the two supposedly separate spheres of male and female lives were connected. A fresh approach and a thorough discussion of this important and neglected aspect not only of Nelson’s life, but of gender history, demands this exact and scholarly edition of the primary material, which consists of about 400 letters that Nelson wrote to Lady Hamilton over the course of the last seven years of his life and about a dozen letters of her to him that have survived.