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.

  • Ned Ward
Date:
1779
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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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    fton, and turn’d a fociable fot, like the reft of his brethren. Sy: The CAPTAIN’s STEWARD, S one that will grow as four as the very wine he ] fells, to find himfelf plac’d at the fag-end of a midfhipman 3; for he’s fome inclres above him in his own conceit. ; He values himfelf upon the reputation of being a fharp fellow, and of turning every thing he fingers into gold. He’s a great virtuofo, that’s certain, for he has been for many years a clofe ftu- dent in both univerfities of Newgate and the Gate- houfe ; and having at laft pafs’d his probation at the Old Baily, was, nemine contradicente, adjudged a qualified perfon for any of his majefty’s planta- tions; but confidering the prefent jucture, and the great need that Europe might have of him, he came to have the navy affign’d him for his por tion. This is his origin, which foon fprings up to an envied grandeur; for the captain ufually eafting his eye upon him, and perceiving him, by I know not what private planetary marks, to be an engine, form’d.as it were by providence, for his ufe, immediately puts him upon probationary eflays; and finding him anfwer to a t— all the lines of his phiz, he eftablifhes him his fteward directly. Having thus wriggl’d himfelf into his captain’s good graces, he endeavours to fix them, by follow ing his leader in all his paces; which he does fo exactly, that in lefs than a twelvemonth he obtains. that garland of praife, Like maffer, like man. Varicus are the parts his charge confifts of; but the.