 | James Boswell - 1851 - 410 pàgines
...choose to continue in it longer than nine months, after which time he got off. — JOHNSON : " Why, sir, 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." We had tea in the... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 pàgines
...sailor was esteemed by him the most dreadful that could be suffered, and he loudly declared that " no man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough...being in a jail with the chance of being drowned." In this Johnson availed himself of the favor of Dr. Smollet, who at once wrote to the celebrated John... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 482 pàgines
...procuring his release from a state of life of which Johnson always expressed the utmost abhorrence. He said, " No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." (Aug. 31, 1773.)... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pàgines
...master kindly interested himself in procuring his release from a state of life of which Johnson always expressed the utmost abhorrence. He once said, " No...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." [August 31. 1773.] And at another time, " A man in a jail has 4 Dr. Robert Vansittart, of the ancient... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1878 - 828 pàgines
...in a malarious country. It is easy enough to understand the opinion of Dr. Johnson : " Why, sir," he said, " no man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail." You would fancy anyone's spirit would die out under such an accumulation of darkness, noisomeness,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 496 pàgines
...procuring his release from a state of life of which Johnson always expressed the utmost abhorrence. He said, " No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." (Aug. 31, 1773.)... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pàgines
...is not properly a general one ; but whether one or the other is best for my son. — Johnson, 291. BEING in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.— 308. THE only way to make a pig go forward is to pull him back by the tail.— 388. EITHER yesterday... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1867 - 158 pàgines
...a wound. Great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger. A SHIP COMPARED TO A JAIL. No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. SPENDING MONEY. No money is... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 pàgines
...struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help ? Ibid. An. 1755. Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. ibid. An. 1759. The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high-road that leads him to... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pàgines
...a state of life of which Johnson always expressed the utmost abhorrence. He said, ' No man will he a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself...ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.'1 And at another time, ' A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.1... | |
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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 ; 
