Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble), 1878-1944 · London : Sidgewick & Jackson, litd · leaf 378
as to lay your ship aboard the othership and fight her to a finish. Then, the reader willremember, came the Cromwellian period, which alteredall this. But instead of continuing this progress, theeighteenth century actually reverted to the medievalmethod, and this was the practice against which… … O-J o THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY the service-^recognised this. I believe you will,vsdth me, think it something surprising, wrote CaptainKempenfelt to the Comptroller of the Navy, that we,who have been so long a famous maritime power,should not yet have established any regular rules forthe orderly and…
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