 | John Henry Sherburne - United States - 1825 - 374 pages
...history. Was it a proof of madness in the first corps of sea officers, at so critical a period, to have launched out on the ocean with only two armed merchant...To be diffident is not always a proof of ignorance ; but sometimes the contrary. I was offered a captain's commission at the first to command the Providence,... | |
 | John Henry Sherburne - United States - 1825 - 400 pages
...proof of madness in the first corps of sea officers, at so critical a period, to have launched out ou the ocean with only two armed merchant ships, two...To be diffident is not always a proof of ignorance ; 1i>ut sometimes the contrary. I was offered a captain's commission at the first to command the Providence,... | |
 | John Paul Jones - History - 1830 - 578 pages
...opinion, it has no precedent in hixtory. Wash a proof of madness in the first corps of sea officers to have, at so critical a period, launched out on...to make war against such a power as Great Britain I They had, perhaps, in proportion to their number, as much sense as the present table of officers... | |
 | John Paul Jones - History - 1830 - 572 pages
...opinion, it has no precedent in history. Was it a proof of madness in the first corps of sea officers to have, at so critical a period, launched out on the ocean, with only two armed merchant shins, two armed brigantines, and one armed 'sloop, to make war against such a power as Great Britain... | |
 | John Paul Jones - History - 1830 - 564 pages
...a period, lunched oat on the ocean, with only two armed merchant shins, two armed origanlinen, end one armed sloop, to make war against such a power as Great Britain ? They had, perhaps, in proportion to their number, as much sense a» the present table of officers... | |
 | John Paul Jones - 1845 - 416 pages
...was literally swept from the seas. But though the opinions of Jones are thus, in all«probability, abstractly of no great value as those of a great naval...to make war against such a power as Great Britain V To be diffident is not always a proof of ignorance. I had sailed before this revolution in armed... | |
 | John Henry Sherburne - United States - 1851 - 422 pages
...history. Was it a proof of madness in the first corps of sea officers, at so critical a period, to have launched out on the ocean with only two armed merchant..."To be diffident is not always a proof of ignorance, but sometimes the contrary, I was offered a captain's commission at the first to command the Providence,... | |
 | John Henry Sherburne - United States - 1851 - 434 pages
...history. Was it a proof of madness in the first corps of sea officers, at so critical a period, to have launched out on the ocean with only two armed merchant ships, two armed brigantineg, and one armed sloop, to make war against such a power as Great Britain? " To be diffident... | |
 | John Paul Jones - Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792 - 1855 - 560 pages
...a period, lanncbed ont on the ocean, with only two armed merchant shine, two armed brigantines, end one armed sloop, to make war against such a power as Great Britain7 They had, perhaps, in proportion to their number, as much sense as the present table of officers... | |
 | John Paul Jones - Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792 - 1858 - 504 pages
...Almost immediately he went to Portsmouth, in New Hampshire, to superintend the building and •uipinent of this ship. This seems to have been one of the few...frigates, yet, when I came to try my skill, I am not ashamed to own I did not find myself perfect in the duties of a first lieutenant. If midnight study,... | |
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Was it a proof of madness in the first corps of sea officers to have, at so critical a period, launched out on the ocean, with only two armed merchant ships, two armed brigantines, and one armed sloop, to make war against such a power as Great Britain? 
