 | James Boswell - 1831 - 612 pągines
...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...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." We had tea in the afternoon, and our landlord's danghter, a modest civil girl, very neatly dressed,... | |
 | 1871 - 928 pągines
...comparison between a ship and a prison, — a comparison in favour of the latter. He said, "No man will bo a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself...with the chance of being drowned." And at another time, "A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company." In addition to the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pągines
...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...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." We had tea in the afternoon, and our landlord's daughter, a modest civil girl, very neatly dressed,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 492 pągines
...release from a state of life of which Johnson always expressed the utmost abhorrence. He once said, ' No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to...with the chance of being drowned ;' and at another time. ' A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. ' The letter was as... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 506 pągines
...release from a state of life of which Johnson always expressed the utmost abhorrence. He once said, ' No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to...with the chance of being drowned;' and at another time, ' A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. ' The letter was as... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pągines
...choose to continue in it longer than nine months, after which time he got off. JOHNSON. " Why, sir, no e to acquire it. " The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If snip is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." We had tea in the afternoon, and our landlord's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pągines
...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.] And... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pągines
...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...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." We had tea in the afternoon, and our landlord's daughter, a modest civil girl, very neatly dressed,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 490 pągines
...release from a state of life of which Johnson always expressed the utmost abhorrence. He once said, ' No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned;' aud at another time, ' A man in a jail has more room, better food, and coo? monly better company. '... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pągines
...choose to continue in it longer than nine months, after which time he got off. JOHNSON. " Why, Sir, no SON. " Why, Sir, I reconcile my principles very well,...inequality and subordination. Were they to be in this We had tea in the afternoon, and our landlord's daughter, a modest, civil girl, very neatly dressed,... | |
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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'. 
