... a fool and a tyrant, fools indeed must those officers be who draw the inference that I mean the impression to be general that all captains are either fools or tyrants. Let the cavillers understand that the tyranny and the folly are innate in the man,... Rattlin, the Reefer - Page 136by Edward Howard - 1836Full view - About this book
| Edward Howard - 1836 - 1000 pages
...that the tyranny and the folly are innate in the man, but, that the service abhors and represses the one, and despises and often reforms the other. The...libel to say, that more than a quarter of a century ago (of course, now, it is all perfection) it contained some bad men among its multitude of good. Such... | |
| 1835 - 592 pages
...that the tyranny and the folly is innate in the man, but, that the service abhors and represses the one, and despises an*d often reforms the other. The...libel to say, that more than a quarter of a century ago (of course now it is all perfection) it contained some bad men among its multitude of good. Such... | |
| Edward Howard - 1856 - 296 pages
...that the tyranny and the folly are innate in the man, but that the service abhors and represses the one. and despises and often reforms the other. The service never made a good man bad, or a bad man worse : on the contrary, it has always improved the one, and reformed the other. It is, however,... | |
| Edward Howard, Frederick Marryat - 1873 - 404 pages
...that the tyranny and the folly are innate in the man, but that the service abhors and represses the one, and despises and often reforms the other. The service never made a good man bad, or a bad man worse : on the contrary, it has always improved the one, and reformed the other. It is, however,... | |
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