It encourages the best men of the day, and it brings out the difference between right and wrong, which are quite smothered up in peace time.

It keeps out a quantity of foreign rubbish and stuff only made to be looked at, and it makes people trust one another, and know what country they belong to, and feel how much they have left to be thankful for.

And what is the use of a noble fleet, unless it can get some fighting?
Blyth, what say you?
You know something about that." "No, sir, I have never been at close quarters yet.

And I doubt--or at least I am certain that I should not like it.

I am afraid that I should want to run down below." Mr.Twemlow, having never smelled hostile powder, gazed at him rather loftily, while the young man blushed at his own truth, yet looked up bravely to confirm it.
"Of all I have ever known or met," said Admiral Darling, quietly, "there are but three--Nelson and two others, and one of those two was half-witted--who could fetch up muzzle to muzzle without a feeling of that sort.