 | John Paul Jones - History - 1830 - 566 pages
...represented as a fine frigate of 32 guns. " I wish," he wrote to M. Chaumont, to have no connexion with any ship that does not sail fast ; for I intend to go in harm's way. You know, I believe, that this is not every one's intention. Therefore, buy a frigate that sails fast,... | |
 | John Paul Jones - History - 1830 - 564 pages
...represented as a fine frigate of 32 guns. " I wish," he wrote to M. Chaumont, to have no connexion with any ship that does not sail fast ; for I intend to go in fiarni's tray. You know, I believe, that this is not every one's intention. Therefore, buy a frigate... | |
 | Alexander Slidell Mackenzie - 1841 - 284 pages
...twentyeight guns, not less then twelve-pounders, on one deck. " I wish," he says, "to have no connexion with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way." A vexatious delay, however, of three months still continued to annoy Jones, and make him almost beside... | |
 | Alexander Slidell Mackenzie - 1845 - 310 pages
...twentyeight guns, not less then twelve-pounders, on one deck. " I wish," he says, " to have no connexion with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way." A vexatious delay, however, of three months still continued to annoy Jones, and make him almost beside... | |
 | John Paul Jones - Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792 - 1855 - 560 pages
...represented as a fine frigate of 32 guns. " I wish," he wrote to M. Chaumont, to have no connexion with any ship that does not sail fast ; for I intend to go in harm'! way. You know, I believe, that this is not every one's intention. Therefore, buy a frigate that... | |
 | John Paul Jones - History - 1890 - 564 pages
...represented as a fine frigate of 32 guns. " I wish," he wrote to M. Chaumont, to have no connexion with any ship that does not sail fast ; for I intend to go /// harm's way. You know, I believe, that this is not every one's intention. Therefore, buy a frigate... | |
 | Cyrus Townsend Brady - Biography & Autobiography - 1900 - 510 pages
...significant phrase culled from one of his letters well indicates the bold, dashing character of the man : " I do not wish to have command of any ship that does...not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way." * In the sentence which follows this statement, we get another touch of that entire consciousness of... | |
 | Cyrus Townsend Brady - America - 1913 - 388 pages
...one woman he loved, he lived two years and died at the age of forty-five. IV. A Hero's Famous Sayings Besides the memory of his battles, Paul Jones left...Navy and the admiration of brave men the world over. When the monument which is to be erected shall be ready for inscriptions, these may with propriety... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1912 - 874 pages
...Telison, the one woman he loved, he lived two years, and died of dropsy on 18 July 1792, at the age of 43. Besides the memory of his battles, Paul Jones left...over. " I do not wish to have command of any ship that docs not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way I " " I have ever looked out for the honor of... | |
 | M. Mac Dermot Crawford - 1913 - 552 pages
...would be the consequence as might remove every cause of uneasiness. " I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way. You know, I believe, that this is not every one's intention. . . . " I have, to show my gratitude to... | |
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I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast. For I intend to go in harm's way. 
