 | Lincoln P. Paine - History - 2000 - 292 pages
...Nelson reportedly erupted: "Leave off action? Now damn me if I do! You know, Foley," turning to the Captain, "I have only one eye: I have a right to be blind sometimes"; and then, putting the glass to his blind eye, in that mood of mind which sports with bitterness, he... | |
 | Ian Grierson - Medical - 2000 - 236 pages
...commander-in-chief had had enough and signalled retreat, but when the signal was reported to Nelson, he said, 'I have only one eye — I have a right to be blind sometimes.' Then he put his telescope up to the blind right eye and said, 'I really do not see the signal!' Nelson's... | |
 | Dean King, John B. Hattendorf, J. Worth Estes - History - 2000 - 532 pages
...and Parker's signal to retreat — which prompted Nelson to utter his famous line, "You know, Foley, I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes" — Nelson carried on and won the day. In 1807, the British defeated forces at Copenhagen again, capturing... | |
 | Quotations - 2001 - 838 pages
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 | William James - History - 2002 - 588 pages
...the greatest naval captain of the age. "Leave off action? Now d — n me if I do! You know, Foley, I have only one eye, - I have a right to be blind sometimes. "f On the subject of the "optional flag," in reference to the Acasta, we shall quote from a contemporary:... | |
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I have only one eye — I have a right to be blind sometimes... 
