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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    [AC gt} ly j jump in the colours of good and evil; by the one you may hear, that nothing is fo precious as the word of the Lord, and by the other you may both fee and feel, thata good bottle, in his fenfes, is, ten times*more valuable than the Bible. The plain truth is, he is much better at compofing a bowl of punch than a fermon. He feldom meolefts a poor dying foul with his vifits, becaufe he wifely confiders, that a failor is a man of no ceremony ; he verily creates far more peace of confcience to the fhip’s company by his practice than his preaching; for he is the great exemplar they. walk by. There’s.as great a difference betwixt him anda reverend divine, as betwixt a quack-dodtor and a learned phyfician; and he will never fhew it more than when you offer to tell him fo; for he will be . readier to confute-you with his. filts than any oe ther proofs whatever. He reckons a fober Chaplain in the navy to be a. downright nonconformift, and thinks himfelf obliged, in confcience to keep aloof from him, to. avoid being tainted with fo damnable a herefy.. _. He’s an equal enemy to Popery and Calvinifm, - and manifefts it thoroughly in his zeal for a fur- ~Join in Lent, and mine’d pyes at Chriftmas. : __ There’s no-hell to him like living eternally on : fale provilons: 7 Pee and brimftone is but a fool to It. af *-Of all ‘ceremonies, he, likes.welk that of a cufhion in praying ; yet, to thew his excefs of loyalty, he will drink the king’s health on ns knees without one. He drinks and prays with aor the like fervour. Ele turns up his glafs and the whites of his eyes. together,,