This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ... will soon be displaced for that somebody. I will allow even that you have money. That will not buy friends. But it may purchase you deadly enemies. Want of good society, or any society, is felt. Your money friends introduce you to their friends, and, eventually, you are ashamed to return home! Think, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ... will soon be displaced for that somebody. I will allow even that you have money. That will not buy friends. But it may purchase you deadly enemies. Want of good society, or any society, is felt. Your money friends introduce you to their friends, and, eventually, you are ashamed to return home! Think, my lads of twelve and fourteen years' arduous and honourable service, with good certificates, and patronized by captains, and yet still a midshipman! possibly to leave the service because you have no parliamentary friends. "Turned ashore--the four valuable years from thirteen to seventeen lost--who will take you into business? Misfortune is a crime in commercial life. Stick to your own society so long as it will furnish you with an existence. "On the other hand, to those, whose fathers command interest and money, and who can secure to their sons friends in their profession, or purchase commissions in the army, both services are glorious. But tell your fathers to inquire where all have gone who left with me I Do not be blinded." Not a cheer. Exit solus. Every one seemed disappointed. I could not help that. The ushers looked on me with surprize--almost horror. The master, and even the Eector, were, to use the expression, quite 'taken aback.' Speaking on the same subject, however, with the ushers and the two latter gentlemen, in the course of the afternoon, I took occasion somewhat to qualify the observations of my abrupt speech, saying--"Naval officers belong to no scale of society, as to family blood or interest. If an officer is correct, gentlemanly, and is fortunately placed, he may outstrip all his titled competitors. We have this plainly before us in the cases of many of our greatest ornaments. "In proposing to send a boy into the navy, ...
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