 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
 | Jen Hill - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 248 pages
...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,... | |
 | History - 2013 - 249 pages
...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."... | |
 | Military art and science - 1832 - 720 pages
...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... | |
 | Ramananda Chatterjee - India - 1913 - 806 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,...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... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - Philosophy - 2005 - 824 pages
...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;... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1814 - 788 pages
...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... | |
 | American essays - 1897 - 1218 pages
...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,... | |
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