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Excerpt from A Manual for Naval Cadets
This act, as liberal and encouraging on the part of the Lords of the Admiralty as it was flattering to the compi lation they had been pleased to honour with their approval, necessitated its publication. The Author felt that it would be but a doubtful proof of the attachment he feels for the service to which he belongs were he from apprehension of criticism, or feelings of false delicacy, to suppress a work which his superiors have honoured with their commenda tion. In the handling of the several subjects the Author desires to express his obligations to those professional friends who have conferred upon him the benefit Of their remarks on some points which he was permitted to bring under their personal noticed' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
