 | William Thomas Stead - 1904 - 794 pages
...his countrymen, he tells me, is Mahan's words : — • "Nelson's far-distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world." JAPANESE TERMS OF PEACE. THE Japanese appear to be counting their chickens before they are hatched,... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1893 - 524 pages
...demonstration of the influence of seapower upon its history. Those fardistant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world. Holding the interior positions they did, before, — and therefore between — the chief dockyards... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1895 - 594 pages
...far-distant, storm-beaten ships,' writes Captain Mahan in. the most impressive passage of his history, ' upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the \vorld . . . while bodily present before Brest, Kochefort, and Toulon, strategically the British squadrons... | |
 | John Knox Laughton - 1896 - 434 pages
...demonstration of the influence of sea-power upon its history. Those far-distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world. Holding the interior positions they did, before, and therefore between, the chief dockyards and detachments... | |
 | William Fraser Rae - 1896 - 510 pages
...the fleet, pp. 111-115. words of Captain Mahan, though composed of " fardistant, storm-beaten ships upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world." 1 The word in season is the word which works as great miracles as faith. It was spoken by Sheridan... | |
 | William Fraser Rae - 1896 - 502 pages
...the fleet, pp. u1-i 15. words of Captain Mahan, though composed of " fardistant, storm-beaten ships upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world."1 The word in season is the word which works as great miracles as faith. It was spoken by Sheridan... | |
 | George Sydenham Clarke Baron Sydenham of Combe, James Richard Thursfield - 1897 - 414 pages
...demonstration of the influence of sea power upon its history. Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world." These two years were typical of the training that makes the seaman. Not all the mathematics, nor all... | |
 | William Henry Fitchett - 1900 - 376 pages
...imprisoned, and kept the fields of Kent in peace. " Those far-distant, storm-beaten ships," says Mahan, " upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world." CHAPTER XIII NAPOLEON'S SEA-STRATEGY BUT the sea, with its vast spaces and wandering winds, has always... | |
 | 1922 - 818 pages
...impressive demonstration of the influence of sea power upon history. Those far distant, storm beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world. Such were some of the more prominent instances in which preponderant naval power determined the fate... | |
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Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world. 
