 | Sir Walter Raleigh - English literature - 1829 - 562 pages
...know, that there is a great deal of difference between fighting loose, or at large, and grappling. The guns of a slow ship pierce as well, and make as...an ignorant bravery was Peter Strossie lost at the A/ores, when he fought against the marquis of Santa Cruz. In like sort RALEGH, VOL. IV. G had the lord... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - Great Britain - 1829 - 710 pages
...his having been now among them z. The 25th of July, the English had another sharp " and grappling. The guns of a slow " ship pierce as well, and make...those in a swift. " To clap ships together without con" sideration, belongs ratherto a mad" man than to a man of war ; for by " such ignorant bravery... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1844 - 424 pages
...must know, that there is a great deal of difference between fighting loose or at large, and grappling. The guns of a slow ship pierce as well and make as...belongs rather to a madman than to a man of war."* The tactics therefore adopted were wisely suited to the comparative powers of the two fleets. Howard's... | |
 | sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1851 - 348 pages
...must know, that there is a great deal of difference between fighting loose or at large and grappling. The guns of a slow ship pierce as well, and make as...swift. To clap ships together, without consideration, * " Historic of the World," p. 791. belongs rather to a madman than to a man of war; for by such an... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - Explorers - 1853 - 454 pages
...must know, that there is a great deal of difference between fighting loose or at large, and grappling. The guns of a slow ship pierce as well and make as...belongs rather to a madman than to a man of war."* The tactics therefore adopted wereTactlesof the wisely suited to the comparative powers of the two... | |
 | Charles Whitehead - Great Britain - 1854 - 344 pages
...great deal of difference been fighting loose or at large, and grappling; the guns of a slow-ship ce as well, and make as great holes, as those in a swift. To clap ships toier without consideration, belongs rather to a madman than to a man of ; for by such an ignorant... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1857 - 574 pages
...to clap ships together without consideration belongs rather to a madman than a man of war ; " that " the guns of a slow ship pierce as well, and make as great holes, as those in a swift." And so the English, having been well taught " the difference between fighting loose or at large, nnd... | |
 | Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - French language - 1858 - 362 pages
...others.' of pleonasm, as vaisseau alone of difference between fighting loose, or at large, and grappling.1 The guns of a slow ship pierce as well, and make as great holes, as those in a swift. To clap ships together,2 without consideration, belongs5 rather to a madman than to a man of war." The Armada lay... | |
 | James Ridgway - 1873 - 216 pages
...know, that there is a great deal of difference between fighting loose, or at large, and grappling. The guns of a slow ship pierce as well, and make as...belongs rather to a madman than to a man of war." The Armada lay off Calais, with its largest ships ranged outside. The English admiral could not attack... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1874 - 550 pages
...to clap ships together without consideration belongs rather to a madman than a man of war ; " that " the guns of a slow ship pierce as well, and make as great holes, as those iu -a swift." And so the English, having been well taught " the difference Raleigh. between fightiug... | |
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The guns of a slow ship pierce as well, and make as great holes, as those in a swift. To clap ships together without consideration, belongs rather to a madman than to a man of war... 
