...but I cannot command winds and weather.

 

...but I cannot command winds and weather.
--
Laughton, John Knox (ed.) Letters and Despatches of Horatio, Viscount Nelson, K.B. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.. 1886, p. 99.

 

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