 | William John Francis Keatley Stride - Universities and colleges - 1900 - 306 pages
...the awe inspired by a superior is in inverse ratio to his seniority. "The Midshipman," he tells us, "patronises the Admiral, at a safe distance; is blandly...but most strictly obeys the senior Sub-Lieutenant." (A Fleet in Being.) in famine years (eg, in 1370, " iiijrf. each for forty weeks from the Saturday... | |
 | William John Francis Keatley Stride - 1900 - 306 pages
...the awe inspired by a superior is iu inverse ratio to his seniority. "The Midshipman," he tells us, "patronises the Admiral, at a safe distance; is blandly superior to his Captain—also at a safe distance; sings time-honoured lampoons about the First Lieutenant, at a very... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1907 - 818 pages
...done according to the custom of the Navy and the etiquette of the Gun-room, whose laws change not. Here the young Nelson learns to obey, in silence and...safe distance; but most strictly obeys the senior Sub- Lieutenant. 285 For seven years, counting his time in the 'Britannia,' he dresses at a chest and... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1913 - 412 pages
...done according to the custom of the Navy and the etiquette of the Gun-room, whose laws change not. Here the young Nelson learns to obey, in silence and...but most strictly obeys the senior Sub-Lieutenant. 285 For seven years, counting his time in the 'Britannia,' he dresses at a chest and sleeps in a hammock,... | |
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... vaunted discipline ; and it is no small thing to reduce to silence boys of sixteen to eighteen, all full of natural and acquired deviltry. But it was done according to the custom of the Navy and the etiquette of the Gun-room, whose laws change not.... 