The Naval Chronicle Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PLATES IN VOLUME XX. From Original Designs
- PREFACE TO THE TWENTIETH VOLUME
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE CAPTAIN WILLIAM HENRY JERVIS, OF THE ROYAL NAVY
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF SIR CHARLES BRISBANE, KNT. CAPTAIN IN THE ROYAL NAVY
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE JOHN BENBOW, ESQ. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF GEORGE NICHOLAS HARDINGE, ESQ. LATE CAPTAIN OF THE SAN FIORENZO
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE SIR HYDE PARKER, BART. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE SIR CHARLES SAXTON, BART. COMMISSIONER OF THE NAVY AT PORTSMOUTH
- INDEX
- Plate section
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF GEORGE NICHOLAS HARDINGE, ESQ. LATE CAPTAIN OF THE SAN FIORENZO
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- PLATES IN VOLUME XX. From Original Designs
- PREFACE TO THE TWENTIETH VOLUME
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE CAPTAIN WILLIAM HENRY JERVIS, OF THE ROYAL NAVY
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF SIR CHARLES BRISBANE, KNT. CAPTAIN IN THE ROYAL NAVY
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE JOHN BENBOW, ESQ. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF GEORGE NICHOLAS HARDINGE, ESQ. LATE CAPTAIN OF THE SAN FIORENZO
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE SIR HYDE PARKER, BART. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE SIR CHARLES SAXTON, BART. COMMISSIONER OF THE NAVY AT PORTSMOUTH
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
“ ———As gentle as the zephyr
Below the violet;—and yet as rough
As the rud'st wind, that by the top doth take
The mountain pine, and make it stoop to th' vale.”
Shakspeare.Of this naval hero's life no historical record will or can be exempted from that pride of the historian who knew him the best, which the hero deprecated in the partialities of those he loved, and who loved him.
Pride he certainly possessed, but it was of the noblest kind: it prompted him to disdain a mean act, or a selfish thought. But no gallant spirit was ever more elevated above the vanity of self-applause. He was even so modest as to give himself no credit for the sentiment, or the habit, of that modesty itself, as a virtue.
It shall be my ambition to give a picture of him, and from the life, under the discipline of this check upon my own pride; though such a love as I bore to him neither hopes nor wishes to be disinterested. But zeal for the memory of a character so dear to me would be miscalculated, if it could violate those principles of honour which it was the uniform habit of his life to revere.
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- The Naval ChronicleContaining a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects, pp. 257 - 336Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1808