Memoirs of the Professional Life of the Rights Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Vice-Admiral of the White, Knight of the Order of the Bath, ... and of Merit: Comprehending Authentic and - Softcover

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Excerpt from Memoirs of the Professional Life of the Rights Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Vice-Admiral of the White, Knight of the Order of the Bath, Duke of Bronte in Sicily, Grand Cross of the Orders of Ferdinand and of Merit: Comprehending Authentic and Circumstantial Details of His Glorious Achievements Under the British Flag, and a Sketch of His Parliamentary Conduct and Private Character

I T is a truth universally acknowledged, that nothing more strongly tends to cherish those virtues which honour human nature, than the memoirs of characters who have been particularly distinguished by them. Independent of the interest which they never fail to excite, they scatter in generous minds seeds of emu lation, ch spring up, and in time produce noble fruit.

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