...naval officer ought to be, that is to say, a man versed in the theory and practice of his calling, and steeled against all the dangers of battle and tempest,...not gentlemen ; and the gentlemen were not seamen. f French marine was nearly the same ; the cost of the Dutch marine considerably more.* The charge of...

...party in 1848, " What is valuible is not new, and what is new is not valuable." hf acanlay saya, " There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles II. But the eamen were not gentlemen, and the gentlemen were not seamen." I remember that fifteen yean...

...naval officer ought to be, that is to say, a man versed in the theory and practice of his calling, and steeled against all the dangers of battle and tempest,...not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen. so ostentatious and voluptuous that, greedy as they were of gain, they seldom became rich. They dressed...

...naval officer ought to be, that is to say, a man versed in the theory and practice of his calling, and steeled against all the dangers of battle and tempest,...gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles II. But the seamen were not gentlemen, and the gentlemen were not seamen."f From that period to the...

...naval officer ought to be, that is to say, a man versed in the theory and practice of his calling, and steeled against all the dangers of battle and tempest,...and polished manners. There were gentlemen and there I were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the sea/ men were not gentlemen ; and the gentlemen...

...naval officer ought to be, that is to say, a man versed in the theory and practice of his calling, and steeled against all the dangers of battle and tempest,...not gentlemen, and the gentlemen were not seamen. — MACAULAY. 1. It was ill the reign of Charles II. that these two terms were first used as designating...

...naval officer ought to be, that is to say, a man versed iu the theory and practice of his calling, and steeled against all the dangers of battle and tempest, yet of cultivated mind and polished manners." MACACLAY'S History of England, Vol. I. p. 207, et teg. them as Masters ; " and this notwithstanding...

...steeled against all the dangen of battle and tempest, yet of cultivated mind and polished manners. Tttere were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of...were not seamen. The English navy at that time might, aero- 1ing to the most exact estimates whiub few« come down to us, have been kept in an efficient...

...hunger and scurvy raged among the crews, and while corpses were daily flung out of the portholes." " The seamen were not gentlemen ; and the gentlemen were not seamen." The advent of Narborough and Shovel produced a different race of seamen, and these commanders were from...

...the Fudges, and their historians. — Shelley, Dedication to Peter Bell. in the Navy of Charles II. But the seamen were not gentlemen ; and the gentlemen were not seamen. 1 History of England. Vol.\.Ch.2. The Puritans hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear,...