 ... men out of danger ; which had been held in former times a point of great ability and circumspection ; as if the principal art requisite in the captain of a ship had been to be sure to come home safe again. He was the first man...  Men of deed and daring - Page 37by Edward N. Marks - 1861Full view - About this book
 | English authors - English literature - 1869 - 458 pages
...was imagined; and despised those rules which had been long in practice, to keep his ship and his men out of danger; which had been held in former times...the captain of a ship had been to be sure to come home safe again. He was the first man who brought the ships to contemn castles on shore, which had... | |
 | Alfred Henry Alston - Seamanship - 1871 - 648 pages
...him ; — that "he despised those rules which had been long in practice, to keep his ships and men out of danger, which had been held in former times...ability and circumspection, as if the principal art in the captain of a ship had been to be sure to come home safe again." I have thus endeavoured to set... | |
 | 1872 - 504 pages
...of him : — " He despised those rules, which had long been in practice, to keep his ships and men out of danger, which had been held in former times...ability and circumspection, as if the principal art in the captain of a ship had been to be sure to come homo safe again." — Alston's Seamanship. LOSSES... | |
 | James Grant - 1873 - 594 pages
...than was imagined, and despised those rules which had long been in practice, to keep his ship and men out of danger, which had been held in former times a point of great ability and circumspection. He was BUte's Last Exploit.] CAPTURE OF THE GALLEONS. 3°9 the first man to contemn castles on shore,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...was imagined, and despised those rules which had been long in practice to keep his ship and his men out of danger, which had been held in former times...the captain of a ship had been to be sure to come home safe again. He was the first man who brought the ships to contemn castles on shore, which had... | |
 | Edward Talbot D. Foxcroft - Somerset (England) - 1876 - 100 pages
...out of danger, which had been in " former times held" a point of great utility and cir" cumspection, as if the principal art requisite in the " Captain...be sure to come safe " home again. He was the first who brought ships " to contemn Castles on shore, which had ever been " thought very formidable, and... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1879 - 216 pages
...was imagined ; and despised those rules which had long been in practice, to keep his ship and his men out of danger, which had been held in former times...the captain of a ship had been to be sure to come home safe again. He was the first that infused that proportion of courage into the seamen, and making... | |
 | Fifty celebrated men - Biography - 1881 - 360 pages
...than was imagined ; he despised those rules which had long been in practice, to keep his ship and men out of danger, which had been held in former times...circumspection ; as if the principal art requisite iu the captain of a ship, had been to be sure to come home safe again. He was the first man who brought... | |
 | James Walter (major, Lancs. artillery volunteers.) - 1882 - 506 pages
...was imagined, and despised those rules which had been so long in practice to keep his ship and men out of danger, which had been held in former times...the captain of a ship had been to be sure to come home safe again. He was the first man who brought the ships to contemn castles on shore, which had... | |
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