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The Daily Dispatch: March 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], Runaway--$25, Reward. (search)
iographers as a homely west-country gentleman, middle-sized, of firm and generous, yet not at all romantic, air and expression, most orderly and pious in his household, and with sacred words ever ready for the guidance of life; but for the rest, a kindly laughter, and known to take a quiet cup of sack and a pipe at bedtime. Such was the man who, at fifty years of age, went a al for the first time, conquered in naval actions against the greatest seam of the day, and in eight short years (1649-1657) so completely established his naval reputation that the title of General, which he had won with glory in a dozen fields of battle, was completely forgotten in that of Admiral. Such was the man who triumphantly disputed with the veteran Van-Tromp the dominion of the sea, and "kept the ring" of the wide ocean in defiance of all comers. Another extraordinary case was Prince Rupert, Blake's old foeman on land, who also turned sailor, and for a time swept over the sea with the same impetuos