Men that fall in fair, manly combat are to be envied rather than pitied, since it is only paying the great debt of nature a little sooner than might otherwise have happened; but there is something revolting to humanity in burning up our fellow-creatures as one would burn rags after the plague.
Nevertheless, this lugger must be had at any price; for English commerce and English power are not to be cut up and braved in this audacious manner with impunity.

The career of these French tigers must be stopped at every sacrifice, Captain Cuffe." "I know that, my lord, and I like a republican as little as you can do, or His Majesty himself, for that matter; and, I take it, _he_ has as little relish for the animal as flesh and blood can give." "I know you do, Cuffe--I'm _sure_ you do; and I esteem you all the more for it.

It is a part of an Englishman's religion, in times like these, to hate a Frenchman.

I went across the Channel after the peace of '83 to learn their language, but had so little sympathy with them, even in peaceable times, as never to be able to make out to write a letter in it, or even to ask intelligibly for the necessaries of life." "If you can ask for anything, it far surpasses my efforts; I never can tell head from stern in their dialect." "It is an infernal jargon, Cuffe, and has got to be so confused by their academies, and false philosophy and infidelity, that they will shortly be at a loss to understand it themselves.

What sort of names they give their ships, for instance, now they have beheaded their king and denounced their God! Who ever heard of christening a craft, as you tell me this lugger is named, the 'Few-Folly'?
I believe I've got the picaroon's title right ?" "Quite right--Griffin _pronounces_ it so, though he has got to be a little queerish in his own English, by using so much French and Italian.
The young man's father was a consul; and he has half a dozen foreign lingoes stowed away in his brain.