Patrick O'Brian Quotes
I have often observed that extremely violent noise and activity go with good-fellowship and heightened spirits.
O'Brian, Patrick. Master and Commander. W.W. Norton & Company, 1990.
He was reporting from Philadelphia at the time. At the time, the existence of many children and a high birth rate was thought to be indicative of a robust economy, advanced health, and a predictor of future economic and military power. The French pioneered the use of demographic information as a component of military intelligence, and the correlation between birthrate and prosperity and power existed until the 20th century where technology and the education and skill of the human population became much more important than numbers of people per se. Kalb later returned to America when the French allied with the American Colonists in the American Revolution. He served under George Washington as a Major General.
Patrick O'Brian, CBE, born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of sea novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and centred on the friendship of the English naval captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish–Catalan physician Stephen Maturin. The 20-novel series, the first of which is Master and Commander, is known for its well-researched and highly detailed portrayal of early 19th-century life, as well as its authentic and evocative language. A partially finished 21st novel in the series was published posthumously containing facing pages of handwriting and typescript.
