 It was an author in his studious retreat, who, casting a prophetic eye on the age we live in, secured the late victories of our naval sovereignty. Inquire at the Admiralty how the fleets of Nelson have been constructed, and they can tell you that it was...  The Quarterly Review - Pàgina 102editat per - 1921Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 622 pàgines
...the late victories of our naval sovereignty. Inquire at the Admiralty how the fleets of Nelson have been constructed, and they can tell you that it was with the oaks which the genius of Evelyn planted.' If Charles II. had instituted, as he once intended, and as he... | |
 | 1819 - 630 pàgines
...the late victories of our naval sovereignty. Inquire at the Admiralty how the fleets of Nelson have been constructed, and they can tell you that it was with the oaks, which the genius of Evelyn planted.' If Charles II. had instituted, as he once intended, and as he... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1822 - 344 pàgines
...the late victories of our naval sovereignty. Inquire at the Admiralty how the fleets of Nelson have been constructed, and they can tell you that it was with the oaks which the genius of EVELYN planted*. The same character existed in France, where DE SERRES in 1599... | |
 | Amédée Pichot - 1825 - 454 pàgines
...the late victories of our naval sovereignty. Inquire at the Admiralty how the fleets of Nelson have been constructed ? and they can tell you that it was with the oaks which the genius of Evelyn planted." To speak only of Evelyn's influence on the English landscape,... | |
 | Joseph Jean M.C. Amédée Pichot - 1825 - 450 pàgines
...the late victories of our naval sovereignty. Inquire at the Admiralty how the fleets of Nelson have been constructed ? and they can tell you that it was with the oaks which the genius of Evelyn planted." To speak only of Evelyn's influence on the English landscape,... | |
 | Richard Brindley Hone - 1833 - 414 pàgines
...the late victories of our naval sovereignty. Inquire at the Admiralty how the fleets of Nelson have been constructed, and they can tell you that it was with the oaks which the genius of Evelyn planted." After he had thus " endeavoured the improvement of timber and... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1835 - 330 pàgines
...the late victories of our naval sovereignty. Inquire at the Admiralty how the fleets of Nelson have been constructed? and they can tell you that it was with the oaks which the genius of Evelyn planted. f Th* same character existed in France, where De Serrn in 1599... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1839 - 418 pàgines
...the late victories of our naval sovereignty. Inquire at the Admiralty how the fleets of Nelson have been constructed, and they can tell you that it was with the oaks which the genius of EVELYN planted*. The same character existed in France, where DE SERRES in Io99... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1839 - 348 pàgines
...country, that D'Israeli does not scruple to say, " Inquire at the Admiralty how the fleets of Nelson have been constructed, and they can tell you that it was with the oaks planted by the genius of Evelyn :" though sorely tried by the loss of seven fair children out of eight,... | |
 | 1847 - 424 pàgines
...the late victorics of our naval sovereignty. Inquire at the Admiralty how the fleets of Nelson have been constructed, and they can tell you that it was with the oaks which the genius of Evelyn planted." " The greater part," to quote the conclusion of Southey's admirable... | |
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