 | George Burnett Barton - 1889 - 752 pages
...this day asked if I knew a man proper to IMS sent out in his stead one who has integrity unimpeached a mind capable of providing its own resources in difficulties...answered as this man must be chosen from among the post-captains I know of no one but Captain Bligh who will suit but whether it will meet his views is... | |
 | Greville Tregarthen - 1894 - 476 pages
...integrity unimpeached, a mind capable of providing its own resources in difficulties without leaning on others for advice, firm in discipline, civil in...answered, ' As this man must be chosen from among the post-captains I know of no one but Captain Bligh who will suit, but whether it will meet his views... | |
 | William Henry Fitchett - 1913 - 430 pages
...integrity unimpeached, a mind capable of providing its own resources in difficulties, without leaning on others for advice, firm in discipline, civil in...answered : As this man must be chosen from among the post-captains, I know of no one but Captain Bligh. . . . I can, therefore, if you chuse it, place you... | |
 | Australia. Parliament. Joint Library Committee - 1916 - 852 pages
...integrity unimpeached, a mind capable of providing its own resources in difficulties without leaning on others for advice, firm in discipline, civil in...I know of no one but Captain Bligh who will suit." Banks was not blind to the faults of his friends, for example the irascibility of Governor King. But... | |
 | Greville Philipps Tregarthen - 1893 - 490 pages
...integrity unimpeached, a mind capable of providing its own resources in difficulties without leaning on others for advice, firm in discipline, civil in...answered, ' As this man must be chosen from among the post-captains I know of no one but Captain Bligh who will suit, but whether it will meet his views... | |
 | Joseph Banks, Neil Chambers - 2000 - 472 pages
...integrity unimpeached, a mind capable of providing its own resources in difficulties without leaning on others for advice, firm in discipline, civil in...whine when severity of discipline is wanted to meet [opposition]. I immediately answered: 'As this man must be chosen from the post captains, I know of... | |
 | John Gascoigne - 2003 - 344 pages
...the post of successor to King. Among Bligh's qualities that Banks praised was the fact that he was 'firm in discipline, civil in deportment and not subject to whimper and wine when severity of discipline is wanted'.55 Bligh duly enforced 'severity of discipline' though... | |
| |
I knew a man proper to be sent out in his stead, one who has integrity unimpeached, a mind capable of providing its own resources in difficulties without leaning on others for advice, firm in discipline, civil in deportment, and not subject to whimper... 