SUBLIME PROFANITY.
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majesty of his great position, and made the world feel it, too. When he gave even the simplest order, he discharged it like a blast of lightning, and sent a long, reverberating peal of profanity thundering after it. I could not help contrasting the way in which the average landsman would give an order, with the the mate's way of doing it.
SUBLIME IS PROFANITY.
If the landsman should wish the gang-plank moved a foot farther forward, he would probably say: "James or William, one of you push that plank forward, please:" but put the mate in his place, and he would roar out: "Here, now, start that gang-plank for'ard! Lively, now! What're you about! Snatch it! snatch it! There! there! Aft again!
