Vulgar words in Our Old Home - A Series of English Sketches - A Series of English Sketches (Page 1)
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Nine tenths of these distinguished admirals, for instance, if their faces tell truth, must needs have been blockheads, and might have served better, one would imagine, as wooden figure-heads for their own ships than to direct any difficult and intricate scheme of action from the quarter-deck.