Sublime

John Jourdain

“Stout ropes to check him, and stout oars to guide.” he sent for Aristotle, the most renowned philosopher of the age, to be his son’s tutor, and paid him a handsome reward for doing so.

William Keeling,

The captain of the Globe, Anthony Hippon, had died as soon as the ship reached Patani.

the Edward Bonaventure.

He was coauthor of a textbook, Principles of Zoology, his first American work, which went through sixteen editions

Master and Commander. Somehow during our first meeting we got to talking about street gangs in L.A., and the book was born again.

‘In point of fact,’ resumed Sir James, not choosing to dwell on ‘fits’, ‘Brooke doesn’t mean badly by his tenants or any one else, but he has got that way of paring and clipping at expenses.’