
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO THE FOURTH VOLUME
- PLATES IN THIS VOLUME
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN JERVIS, EARL OF ST. VINCENT, KNIGHT OF THE MOST HONOURABLE ORDER OF THE BATH, AND ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ADAM DUNCAN, LORD VISCOUNT DUNCAN, KNIGHT OF THE IMPERIAL RUSSIAN ORDER OF ST. ALEXANDER NEWSKI, AND ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES OF NAVAL OFFICERS WHO HAVE HITHERTO PASSED NEARLY UNNOTICED BY HISTORIANS
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE HONOURABLE SAMUEL HARRINGTON, ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON, AND GENERAL OF MARINES
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF SIR ERASMUS GOWER, KNIGHT
- BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES OF NAVAL OFFICERS WHO HAVE HITHERTO PASSED NEARLY UNNOTICED BY HISTORIANS
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF SIR THOMAS PASLEY, BART. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY SMITH, GRAND CROSS OF THE ROYAL MILITARY SWEDISH ORDER OF THE SWORD, AND COMMANDER
- INDEX
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY SMITH, GRAND CROSS OF THE ROYAL MILITARY SWEDISH ORDER OF THE SWORD, AND COMMANDER
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO THE FOURTH VOLUME
- PLATES IN THIS VOLUME
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN JERVIS, EARL OF ST. VINCENT, KNIGHT OF THE MOST HONOURABLE ORDER OF THE BATH, AND ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ADAM DUNCAN, LORD VISCOUNT DUNCAN, KNIGHT OF THE IMPERIAL RUSSIAN ORDER OF ST. ALEXANDER NEWSKI, AND ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES OF NAVAL OFFICERS WHO HAVE HITHERTO PASSED NEARLY UNNOTICED BY HISTORIANS
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE HONOURABLE SAMUEL HARRINGTON, ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON, AND GENERAL OF MARINES
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF SIR ERASMUS GOWER, KNIGHT
- BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES OF NAVAL OFFICERS WHO HAVE HITHERTO PASSED NEARLY UNNOTICED BY HISTORIANS
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF SIR THOMAS PASLEY, BART. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY SMITH, GRAND CROSS OF THE ROYAL MILITARY SWEDISH ORDER OF THE SWORD, AND COMMANDER
- INDEX
Summary
He, high in soul, was mated with the best:
First in the lists, where'er those lists were found,
He claim'd the prize, nor ever yielded ground;
Nor, for the biting sword, nor thrilling spear,
With helm on head, was ever known to fear.
Way's Fabliaux.By Heav'n, to me it were an easy leap
To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon;
Or dive into the bottom of the deep,
Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,
And pluck up drowned honour by the locks!
Shakspeare.The Author of the State Worthies of England, David Lloyd, a biographer not less remarkable for acuteness of observation than for a forcible singularity of expression, nearly drew the portrait of this gallant officer by anticipation, a century and a half since. It is no disparagement that Sir Walter Raleigh sat for the picture.
“As for his native parts,” says Lloyd, “and those of his own acquiring, he had in the outward man a good presence, in a handsome and well compacted person; a strong natural wit, and a better judgment; with a bold plausible tongue, whereby he could set out his parts to the best advantage; and to these he had the adjuncts of some general learning, which by diligence he enforced to a great augmentation and perfection, for he was an indefatigable reader, whether by sea or land, and none of the least observers both of men and the times.
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- The Naval ChronicleContaining a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects, pp. 445 - 528Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1801