 | Steve Turner - 2009 - 308 pàgines
...sea during this period was "No man will be a sailor who has a contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jaiL with the chance of being drowned." A contemporary proverb said much the same thing: "He who would go to sea for pleasure. would go to... | |
 | Conrad Allen - 2002 - 308 pàgines
...voice so that the whole group could hear him. "Do you know what Samuel Johnson said about the sea? 'No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail, since being in a ship is being in jail, with the chance of getting drowned.' Good point." "Harvey!"... | |
 | Sheila O'Connell - 2003 - 300 pàgines
...naval life as salvation for street children (cat. 3.26), Samuel Johnson's view was more commonly held: 'No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a gaol; for being in a ship is being in a gaol, with the chance of being drowned ... A man in a gaol... | |
 | Thomas Pynchon - 1997 - 788 pàgines
...a miracle in that year of miracles, 1759, upon whose Ides of March Dr. Johnson happen'd to remark, "No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." Some would call her a Frigate, though officially she is a couple of guns shy, causing others to add... | |
 | Tim Zimmermann - 2002 - 358 pàgines
...It would soon become the most vibrant, compelling competition in the sport of sailing. MODERN MAYHEM No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned .^^ A man in jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. — Samuel Johnson IN 1973,... | |
 | Tom Watkins - 2004 - 130 pàgines
...lecture, sailed, hung out in the Keys, and . . . Ah, but I'm ahead of myself. 1 Florida and the Keys No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. —Samuel Johnson Beau is 6'6"... | |
 | Conrad Brunström - 2004 - 220 pàgines
...perhaps another nightmare version of being on board ship. (Cowper would have endorsed Johnson's remark: "No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.")"' Like many of the Olney Hymns (not to mention "The Castaway"), the bullfinch poem consists of a mixture... | |
 | Marcus Rediker - 2004 - 270 pàgines
...from captured merchantmen as volunteers, for reasons suggested by Samuel Johnson's observation that "no man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough...himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in jail with the chance of being drowned A man in jail has more room, better food, and commonly better... | |
 | Stephen K. Batalden, Kathleen Cann, John Dean - 2004 - 396 pàgines
...define a sailor. His response was simple and to the point: No man will be a sailor, who has contrivance to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.2 Why, therefore, did organized seafarers' missions finally emerge at the time they did and... | |
 | Pamela Sisman Bitterman - 2004 - 380 pàgines
...author at the helm of the Sofia chapter 2. Into the Teeth of Hurricane Kendra J/Ly J/Laiden Voyage Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. SAMUEL JOHNSON INTRODUCTION I boarded the tall ship in Boston on August 20, 1978. We left the harbor... | |
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned ; 
