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conversations.value: What is the first five paragraphs for a book with the title 'John Paul Jones'?
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conversations.value: John Paul Jones
  John Adams once described as "leprous with vanity." Jones was, in a way, sickened by his own pride, driven by an unquenchable thirst for glory that was off-putting to others. But he was also a true-blue patriot, and he was unusual in the rag-tag Continental Navy for his ability to fight. In battle, Jones was exuberant, resourceful, relentless, and brave. "Eccentricities and Irregularities are to be expected from him—they are in his character, they are visible in his Eyes," John Adams wrote about Jones. "His voice is soft and small, his eye has a keenness and Wildness and softness in it." This portrait by J. M. Moreau, one of the best engravers of the age, reveals an undercurrent of anxiety behind Jones's strong visage.
  He was born John Paul, Jr., in a small white-washed cottage at Arbigland, a great estate on the southwest coast of Scotland, where his father was the head gardener. Young John Paul went to sea at the age of thirteen. Fleeing to America after killing a man, he changed his name to Jones.
  John Paul was rumored to be the bastard son of the "laird," or landlord, of Arbigland, William Craik. Young John Paul was packed off to Whitehaven, an English city across the Fifth of Solway from Scotland, to obtain an apprentice's berth on a merchant ship. as an American navy captain, Jones returned to Whitehaven eighteen years later to try to burn the ships in the port.
  Joseph Hewes of North Carolina and Robert Morris of Philadelphia were Jones's patrons in the Continental Congress. They recognized and promoted his talents but had to put up with his constant complaints that less able captains were getting better ships. Jones lobbied for a "fast ship...for I intend to sail in harm's way." He had to sail into his greatest battle inn an old, slow tub.
  John Hancock, the president of the Continental Congress, signed Jones's captain's commission, but he condescended to him. "I admire the spirited conduct of little Jones," Hancock wrote about Jones (who was 5′ 6″) after hearing of Jones's daring attacks against British shipping. Jones quarreled with Hancock over his rank on the seniority list. "You will not blame my free soul, which will never stoop where it cannot esteem," Jones wrote his congressional ally, Robert Morris. Jones tried to swallow his pride: "The best way is to cooperate cheerfully. I am earnest to do everything with good nature," he wrote. But then he returned to brooding.
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conversations.value: John Hancock, the president of the Continental Congress, signed Jones's captain's commission, but he condescended to him. "I admire the spirited conduct of little Jones," Hancock wrote about Jones (who was 5′ 6″) after hearing of Jones's daring attacks against British shipping. Jones quarreled with Hancock over his rank on the seniority list. "You will not blame my free soul, which will never stoop where it cannot esteem," Jones wrote his congressional ally, Robert Morris. Jones tried to swallow his pride: "The best way is to cooperate cheerfully. I am earnest to do everything with good nature," he wrote. But then he returned to brooding.
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conversations.value: What is the last five paragraphs? Start with the sentence 'John Hancock, the president of the Continental Congress, signed Jones's captain's commission, but he condescended to him'.
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conversations.value: John Hancock, the president of the Continental Congress, signed Jones's captain's commission, but he condescended to him. "I admire the spirited conduct of little Jones," Hancock wrote about Jones (who was 5′ 6″) after hearing of Jones's daring attacks against British shipping. Jones quarreled with Hancock over his rank on the seniority list. "You will not blame my free soul, which will never stoop where it cannot esteem," Jones wrote his congressional ally, Robert Morris. Jones tried to swallow his pride: "The best way is to cooperate cheerfully. I am earnest to do everything with good nature," he wrote. But then he returned to brooding.
  The British press caricatured the fearsome "Pirate Paul Jones." In 1770, as the master of a merchant ship, Jones had been unjustly imprisoned in Kirkcudbright for flogging the son of an influential local. In 1778, as an American Navy captain, Jones returned to Kirkcudbright to kidnap the Earl of Selkirk. The Earl was gone, so Jones settled for stealing his lordship's silver. Wishing to be seen as a gentlemen, Jones later returned the silver.
  Jones Venerated, the American Minister in Paris who essentially acted as his boss. Franklin valued Jones's fighting qualities but warned Jones to control his ego and share credit with others. Jones was ordered by Franklin to join forces with the Marquis de Lafayette to attack the British coast.
  Desperate for action, Jones joined the Russian Navy of Catherine the Great in 1788. He fought well in several battles and clashed with Catherine's favorite lover and generalissimo, Prince Potemkin. In St. Petersburg, Jones was disgraced in a sex scandal, accused of raping a ten-year old girl. His enemies probably set him up.
  Buried in a forgotten grave in Paris in 1792, Jones was finally laid to rest in this tomb more than a century after he died. Jones's crypt, modeled on Napoleon's tomb, lies beneath the transept of the Naval Academy Chapel. "He gave our navy," an inscription reads, "its earliest traditions of heroism and victory."