THERE are three 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, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting their propriety. Secondly,... The Monthly critical gazette - Page 2961824Full view - About this book
| John Ruskin - 1905 - 736 pages
...midshipmen, " which you are constantly to bear in mind. Pint, 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's Life qf Nelton, ch. iii.).] 1 [Matthew vii. 16, 20.] gone on to the duties of soldiers,... | |
| John Ruskin - 1905 - 714 pages
...midshipmen, "which you are constantly to bear in mind. First, you must always implicit!) obey orders. . . . Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who...and, thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman as you do the deril " (Southey's Life of Nelson, ch. iii.).] J [Matthew vii. 16, 20.] gone on to the duties of soldiers,... | |
| Robert Southey - Admirals - 1906 - 288 pages
...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,...the devil." With these feelings he engaged in the Anti-Jacobean war. Josiah, his son-in-law, went with him as a midshipman. The Agamemnon was ordered... | |
| Robert Southey - Admirals - 1916 - 376 pages
...three 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,...own respecting their propriety. Secondly, you must consideV every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and, thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman... | |
| American essays - 1897 - 962 pages
...rule to which he himself gave the first place in his advice to a young midshipman: "You must always m( $ ; Q J _ _ >% c ## {" 0EqZ 4 Ug & d % $9 *7S o i !}5 8Ih5]( = The general rule of obedience to superiors is one upon which a subordinate may rely for justification,... | |
| Patrick O'Brian - Fiction - 1990 - 294 pages
...and Nelson said to him, "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."' 'Admirably well put,' said Jack. 'But surely,' said Stephen, who loved un-Napoleonic France, 'he cannot... | |
| Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...places his ship alongside the enemy. 8134 Close with a Frenchman, but out-manoeuvre a Russian. 8135 nd Superman 'Maxims: Democracy' Democracy substitutes election by the i ... you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil. 8121 8136 (putting telescope to his blind eye)... | |
| John Sugden - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 984 pages
...Nelson reputedly said. 'First, you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form an opinion of your own respecting their propriety; secondly, you must consider every man as your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman as you do the devil.'59... | |
| John Sugden - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 984 pages
...to form an opinion of your own respecting their propriety; secondly, you must consider every man as your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman as you do the devil.' 59 This famous if unverifiable quotation offered at least two principles upon which Nelson generally... | |
| Robert Gibson - History - 2004 - 336 pages
...at, when they are enemies', while in his Life of Nelson (1813) Robert Southey reported him as saying: 'You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king . . . and you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.' Nelson's pugnacity was well matched by Napoleon's.... | |
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