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I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.

Horatio Nelson

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Topic

Seasickness Sailing Vocation

Author

Horatio Nelson

Source

Letters of Horatio Nelson

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1804 1800s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Nelson, Horatio. Letter to the Earl of Camden, the Secretary of War. c. 1804.

You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king: and... You must hate "a Frenchman as you hate the devil."

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Topic

England and France

Speaker

Horatio, Lord Nelson

Language

English

Time

1813 1810s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Nelson, Horatio. Quoted in The Life of Nelson, written by Robert Southey. Vol. 1, London: John Murray, 1813, ch. 3.

Current Citation

Nelson, Horatio. Quoted in The Life of Nelson, written by Robert Southey. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2015, ch. 3.