Whatever the worth of this opinion,-which is immaterial to the present contention,-a change so radical as from broadside battery to turreted ships, and from the latter back to broadside, though without entirely giving up turrets, should cause some reasonable hesitancy in imputing obsoleteness to any armored steamship.
"Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles"
Alfred T. Mahan
At the obsoleteness of Chaucer's own diction this critic, who writes entirely "for the better brought-up sort," is obliged to shake his learned head.
"Chaucer"
Adolphus William Ward