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The British Navy in 1797

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Eric Crozier
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Johnson's statement reads like a paradox, like one of those ponderous challenges to accepted opinion that sometimes he delighted to hurl out in conversation. It expresses an attitude that is at the opposite pole to the conventional eighteenth-century view of the British Navy. His lifelong friend David Garrick summed up this romantic view of naval life in his song, Hearts of Oak.

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Research Article
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Tempo , Issue 21 , Autumn 1951 , pp. 9 - 11
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1951

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