The wooden world dissected : in the character of a ship of war, as also, the characters of all the officers, from the captain to the common sailor / by the author of The London-spy.

  • Ward, Edward, 1667-1731
Date:
1779
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The wooden world dissected : in the character of a ship of war, as also, the characters of all the officers, from the captain to the common sailor / by the author of The London-spy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ob a The Charatler of a SEA-CAPTAIN. E is a Leviathan, or rather a kind of fea-god, whom the poor tars worfhip as the Indians do the devil, more through fear than affection ; nay, fome will have it, that he is more a devil than the devil himfelf. to allow all his flaves their hire, nay, and lets them has fo little Chriftian honefty, as to -force the z one. certain; for his dad, in a drunken frolick, begot to wine and gunpowder ever after. Though it is con mmonly faid of him, that he is better fed than taught, yet he fully makes up the poverty of his education, with that of his endow- ments; for he is commonly a man of many ta- lents; he-relies far more upon thefe than book- knowledge, and accounts all literature very im- .pertinent, that. tends not directly to the doubling of a penny. The great cabin is the fanéhum Juntlorum he in- habits; from this all mortals are excluded by a marine, with a brandifh’d fword, who guards this the geefe-in St. James’s Park. Pe Some-