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Patrick O'Brian kniha Master and Commander
Zdroj: Master and Commander (1970)
Kontext: “But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.”
“Jack, you have debauched my sloth.”
HMS Surprise (1973)
Zdroj: H.M.S. Surprise
Patrick O'Brian kniha Post Captain
Zdroj: Post Captain (1972)
“Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.”
Patrick O'Brian kniha The Commodore
Zdroj: The Commodore (1995)
“And pray, what in sea language is meant by a ship?”
Patrick O'Brian kniha Master and Commander
"She must have three square-rigged masts, sir," they told him kindly, "and a bowsprit; and the masts must be in three - lower, top and topgallant - for we never call a polacre a ship."
Master and Commander (1970)
Patrick O'Brian kniha The Unknown Shore
The Unknown Shore (1959).
Patrick O'Brian kniha Master and Commander
"James, I trust there was no mens rea in that remark?"
Master and Commander (1970) ("rears and vices" is O'Brian's homage to Jane Austen's Mansfield Park)
“My God, oh my God," he said. "Six hundred men.”
Patrick O'Brian kniha Desolation Island
Desolation Island (1979)
