 | William Hepworth Dixon - 1852 - 478 pages
...State the first news of the reverse of fortune, he says : — " I am bound to let your honours know that there was much baseness of spirit, not among the merchant-men only, but in many of the State's ships. And therefore I make it my earnest request that your honours would be... | |
 | François Guizot - 1854 - 426 pages
...sorrowful disinterestedness. "I am bound," he wrote to the Council of State, " to let your honors know that there ,was much baseness of spirit, not among the merchantmen only, but in many of the State's ships. And therefore I make it my earnest request that your honors would be... | |
 | François Guizot - 1854 - 512 pages
...Provinces Unies, vol. iv. p. 336 ; Brandt's Life of Ruyter, p. 24 ; Heath's Chronicle, p. 611. know that there was much baseness of spirit, not among the merchantmen only, but in many of the State's ships. And therefore I make it my earnest request that your honours would be... | |
 | François Guizot - 1868 - 648 pages
...sorrowful disinterestedness. " I am bound," he wrote to the Council of State, " to let your honours know that there was much baseness of spirit, not among the merchantmen only, but in many of the State's ships. And therefore I make it my earnest request that your honours would be... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1886 - 474 pages
...employment, but before everything he made* it his earnest request that commissioners might be sent down to take an impartial and strict examination of the deportment of several commanders.' The council, however, ' refused to supersede him, although they associated two others with him as generals... | |
 | 1891 - 912 pages
...in a sadly shattered state into safety. In his report to the council of state lie complains of the ' baseness of spirit, not among the merchantmen only, but many of the state's ships.' Van Tromp now scoured the Channel in triumph, and to this period belongs the apocrvphal stnry of his... | |
 | Sir William Laird Clowes, Sir Clements Robert Markham, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Herbert Wrigley Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Leonard George Carr Laughton - 1898 - 666 pages
...result of the battle to the Council of State, he wrote : — * " I am bound to let your Honours know that there was much baseness of spirit, not among...examination of the deportment of several commanders. . . . And I hope it will not be unreasonable for me, in behalf of myself, to desire your Honours, that... | |
 | David Hannay - 1898 - 530 pages
...measures to enforce discipline and a proper martial spirit amongst their captains. Blake had complained " that there was much baseness of spirit, not among...merchantmen only, but many of the State's ships," and he had asked for a committee of inquiry. This request was instantly complied with. Colonel Walton,... | |
 | Edward Kirk Rawson - 1899 - 498 pages
...account'of his defeat to the Council of State, he wrote: — " I am bound to let your honours know that there was much baseness of spirit, not among the merchantmen only, but in many of the state's ships. And therefore I make it my earnest request that your honours would be... | |
 | 1901 - 886 pages
...in a sadly shattered state into safety. In hia report to the council of state he complains of the ' baseness of spirit, not among the merchantmen only, but many of the state's ships.' Van Tromp now scoured the Channel in triumph, and to this period belongs the apocrvphal story of his... | |
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Honours know in general that there was much baseness of spirit, not among the merchantmen only, but many of the State's ships, and therefore I make it my humble request that your Honours would be pleased to send down some gentlemen to take an impartial... 
