...midshipman in The Life, "There are three things, young gentleman, which you are constantly to bear in mind. First, you must always implicitly obey orders,...thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman as you do the devil" (59), his words are prescriptive of a kind of national behavior. The "gentleman" addressed may be,...

...stepson, a boy about thirteen years old at this time. To these young sailors he gave this advice : " First, you must always implicitly obey orders, without...propriety ; secondly, you must consider every man as your enemy who speaks evil of your king ; and thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman as you do the devil."...

...things, young gentlemen," said Nelson to one of his midshipmen, " which you are constantly to bear in mind, — First, you must always implicitly obey...Thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman as you do the devil." This admonition was given when France rancorously threatened to destroy England as a nation, and had...

...things, young gentleman," said Nelson to one of his midshipmen, " which you are constantly to bear in mind. First, you must always implicitly obey orders,...thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman as you do the devil." But it is just possible that the objects of hatred that a mariner and a monk might have had in view...

...Mediterranean against the fleet of revolutionary France: "First, you must always implicitly obey orders ... secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who...thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman as you do the devil" (Southey 1909, 59). 288: 17-20 When I lived in China ... ignorant of perspective. See Russell 1921;...

...followers. It was the first of three charges n'iveh by himself to a young VOL. XI. 3 R midshipman, ' you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting...any opinion of your own respecting their propriety ;' yet in the West Indies, under Sir Richard Hughes ; in the battle with the Spanish fleet, under Sir...

...rule to which he himself gave the first place in his advice to a young midshipman : " You must always obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting their propriety." The general rule of obedience to superiors is one upon which a subordinate may rely for justification,...