 | Joseph Nightingale - 1813 - 436 pages
...a letter, the original of which is still in the hands of the family, and the translation follows : SIR, I had little hopes on Monday last but to have supped in yoor cabbin: it pleased God to order it ritlx i H ir ; I am thankful fur it. As for those cowardly... | |
 | English literature - 1823 - 508 pages
...farther than would a whole volume, to prove the base manner in which this brave man was betrayed : — " SIR, — I had little hopes on Monday last, but to...cabin ; but it pleased God to order it otherwise: I an thankful for it. As for iho.se cowardly captains who deserted you, hang them up, for, by G — ,... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1825 - 534 pages
...Casse arrived at Carthagena, he wrote a letter to Benbow to this effect :— " Sir, " I had little hope on Monday last but to have supped in your cabin; but...pleased God to order it otherwise. I am thankful for it. Aa for those cowardly captains who deserted you, hang them up; for, by God, they deserve it. " Your's,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1827 - 490 pages
...Casse arrived at Carthagena, he wrote a letter to Benbow to this effect : " SIR, — I had little hope on Monday last but to have supped in your cabin ....those cowardly captains who deserted you, hang them np ; for, by God, they deserve it. Yours, DU CASSE." VOL. i. E 6 1702. The same precaution had been... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1827 - 492 pages
...Casse arrived at Caithagena, he wrote a letter to Benbow to this effect : " Sin, — 1 had little hope on Monday last but to have supped in your cabin ;...for it. As for those cowardly captains who deserted vou, hang them up ; for, by God, they deserve it. Yours, DU CASSE." VOL. I. EC 1702. The same precaution... | |
 | Thomas Southey - West Indies - 1827 - 568 pages
...after his arrival at Carthagena, wrote to Admiral Benbow—the following is a translated copy: — " I had little hopes, on Monday last, but to have supped in your cabin : it pleased God to order it otherwise. I am thank" SIR, Atkins's West Indies, p. 249. ful for it.... | |
 | Characters and characteristics - 1832 - 644 pages
...Carthagcna, sent Benbow the following letter, which proves the little prospect he had of escaping : " SIR, — I had little hopes on Monday last but to have supped in your cabin ; it pleased God to order it otherwise, and I am thankful for it. As for those cowardly captams, who... | |
 | Characters and characteristics - 1832 - 512 pages
...sent Benbow the following letter, which proves the little prospect he had of escaping : " S, ,i, — I had little hopes on Monday last but to have supped in your cabin ; it pleased God to. order it otherwise, and I am thankful for it. As for those cowardly capta,ns,... | |
 | John Campbell - 1841 - 604 pages
...original of which is still, or at least was, in the hands of admiral Ben bow's family: — -" SIH, I had little hopes, on Monday last, but to have supped in your cahin : but it pleased God to order it otherwise ; I am thankful for it. As for those cowardly captain*... | |
 | Joseph Timothy Haydn - 1845 - 638 pages
...French admiral, of which tho following is a literal translation : " Carthagena, August 22, 1/C2. •' SIR, — I had little hopes on Monday last, but to have supped in your cabin ; yet it pleased God to order it otherwise. I am thankful for it. As for those cowardly captains who... | |
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I had little hope on Monday last but to have supped in your cabin, but it pleased God to order otherwise, and I am thankful for it. As for those cowardly captains who deserted you, hang them up ; for, by God, they deserve it. 
