...Parker signalled to Nelson 'discontinue the action ': Nelson said to his flag-captain, 'You know, Foley, I have only one eye — I have a right to be blind sometimes. ' Putting the glass to his blind eye: 'I really do not see the signal. ' From a nineteenth-century...

...landing on the Corsican town of Calvi in 1 794) and replied to his flag captain, "You know, Foley, I have only one eye. I have a right to be blind, sometimes. I do not see the signal." Mahan's interpretation of events is instructive. He judged the attack on Copenhagen...

...from the enemy ? Never I Never ! " Then turning to one of his officers, he said bitterly, " You know I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes." With these words he put the telescope to his blind eye, exclaiming with some humour, " I really do...

...Parker's signal still flapping in the breeze, Nelson turned to his flag captain: "You know, Foley, I have only one eye — I have a right to be blind sometimes." And raising his telescope to his blind eye, he calmly remarked, "I really do not see the signal." Torn...

...attributed) 1 . How (Mr. Gladstone) speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting! 2. I have only one eye - 1 have a right to be blind sometimes I really do not see the signal. 3. And smale fowles maken melodye That slepen al the night with open eye. 4. 'Cause I's wicked - I's...

...attributed) 1. He (Mr. Gladstone) speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting? 2. I have only one eye-I have a right to be blind sometimes ... I really do not see the signal. 3. And smale fowles maken melodye. That slepen all the night with open eye. 4. 'Cause I's wicked -...

...And then added with a shrug, 'Now damn me if I do.' To his captain, Foley, he said, 'You know, Foley, I have only one eye - I have a right to be blind sometimes.' And then, as Stewart put it, 'with an archness peculiar to his character, putting the glass to his...