 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...battle of Trafalgar, was considered at an end. The fleets of the enemy were not merely defeated, but destroyed ; new navies must be built, and a new race...people of England grieved that funeral ceremonies, and public monuments, and posthumous rewards, were all which they could now bestow upon him whom the... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...battle of Trafalgar, was considered at an end. The fleets of the enemy were not merely defeated, but destroyed ; new navies must be built, and a new race...people of England grieved that funeral ceremonies, and public monuments, and posthumous rewards, were all which they could now bestow upon him whom the... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...end. The fleets of the enemy wen not merely defeated, but destroyed; new navies must be built, and 9 new race of seamen reared for them, before the possibility...invading our shores could again be contemplated. It wa3 not, therefore, from any selfish reflection upon the magnitude of our loss that %ve mourned for... | |
 | James Currie (A.M.) - 1871 - 136 pages
...in the use of this point EXERCISE LXXXII. Point the following exercise, and give the reasons : — It was not therefore from any selfish reflection upon...for him the general sorrow was of a higher character Alighting and giving his horse to the landlord he advanced to an old man who was at work in paving... | |
 | National reading books - 1871 - 232 pages
...battle of Trafalgar, was considered at an end. The fleets of the enemy were not merely defeated, but destroyed ; new navies must be built, and a new race...people of England grieved that funeral ceremonies, and public monuments, and posthumous rewards, were all which they could now bestow upon him whom the... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...battle of Trafalgar, was considered at an end. The fleets of the enemy were not merely defeated but destroyed ; new navies must be built, and a new race...people of England grieved that funeral ceremonies, and public monuments, and posthumous rewards, were all which they could now bestow upon him whom the... | |
 | James Ridgway - 1873 - 216 pages
...battle of Trafalgar, was considered at an end. The fleets of the enemy were not merely defeated, but destroyed; new navies must be built, and a new race...possibility of their invading our shores could again be thought of. It was not, therefore, from any selfish idea of the greatness of our loss, that we mourned... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1873 - 408 pages
...Trafalgar, was considered at an end. The fleets of the enemy were not merely defeated — they were destroyed : new navies must be built, and a new race...them, before the possibility of their invading our shores5 could again be 'contemplated. It was not, therefore, from any selfish reflection upon the magnitude... | |
 | John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - Latin language - 1875 - 418 pages
...country had lost in its great naval hero: — the greatest of our own and of all former times — was scarcely taken into the account of grief. So perfectly,...people of England grieved that funeral ceremonies, and public monuments, and posthumous rewards, were all which they could now bestow upon him, whom the... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...battle of Trafalgar, was considered at an end. The fleets of the enemy were not merely defeated, but destroyed ; new navies must be built, and a new race...people of England grieved that funeral ceremonies, and public monuments, and posthumous rewards, were all which they could now bestow upon him whom the... | |
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... greatest of our own, and of all former times, was scarcely taken into the account of grief. So perfectly indeed had he performed his part, that the maritime war, after the battle of Trafalgar, was considered at an end : the fleets of the enemy were... 
