Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 295
ismother it was further owing, indirectly, that he adoptedthe profession of a seaman. From his earliest yearsthe boy had evinced a quickness of understanding anda generous energy of spirit, which promised to raise himhigh in almost any department of human activity. Itwas the circumstance of Maurice… … Nelson. Nelson 267 He was only about twelve years old when, being athome during the Christmas holidays and happening toread in a country newspaper that Captain Sucklingwas appointed to command the Raisonnable, sixty-fourguns, at that time put under commission in the pros-pect of a quarrel with…
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