Frank Mildmay or, The Naval Officer

Name: Frank Mildmay or, The Naval Officer
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Author: Frederick Marryat
ISBN: 978-1979706964

By Frederick Marryat

2019-10-09 19:41:42

Brief Extract: I was sent to school to learn Latin and Greek, of which there are various ways of teaching. Some tutors attempt the suaviter in modo, my schoolmaster preferred the fortiter in re, and, as the boatswain said, by the “instigation” of ... Read more

Brief Extract: I was sent to school to learn Latin and Greek, of which there are various ways of teaching. Some tutors attempt the suaviter in modo, my schoolmaster preferred the fortiter in re, and, as the boatswain said, by the “instigation” of a large knotted stick, he drove knowledge into our skulls as a caulker drives oakum into the seams of a ship. Less

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File size350.542 KB

Print pages222

PublisherPublic Domain Book

Publication date2015-12-13

LanguageEnglish

ISBN978-1979706964

Frederick Marryat

Author

Captain Frederick Marryat CB FRS (10 July 1792 – 9 August 1848) was a Royal Navy officer, a novelist, and an acquaintance of Charles Dickens. He is noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story, ...