 | 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... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pàgines
...obtain a discharge ; for Johnson abhorred the very imagination of a sailor's life. " No man," he said, " will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get...-with the chance of being drowned." And at another time he added, " A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company." The influence... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pàgines
...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...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."«... | |
 | G. Cameron - 1874 - 404 pàgines
...gain my esteem, and his mode of treating his son was by no means calculated to honour. CHAPTER X. "No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a ship u being in a jail, with a chance of being drowned." — Da. JOHNSON. By sunrise the next morning I... | |
 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 480 pàgines
...being in a ship is being in a jail,, with the chance of being drowned." And at another time he added, " A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company." The influence of Mr. Wilkes was great enough to procure the lad's discharge; and Francis was astonished... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1875 - 282 pàgines
...JOHN HOLDSWORTH: CHIEF MATE. JOHN HOLDSWORTH: CHEF MATE.Storg, in <3Thm BY THE AUTHOR OF "JILTED." "No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to...being in a jail with the chance of being drowned." — Dr. Johnson. VOL. I. SECOND EDITION. SAMPSON LOW, MABSTOJST, LOW, & SEABLE, CEOWN BUILDINGS, FLEET... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1875 - 292 pàgines
...JOHN HOLDSWORTH: CHIEF MATE. JOHN HOLDSWORTH: CHIEF MATE. Jt gtcrg, in BY THE AUTHOR OF "JILTED." "No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to...being in a jail with the chance of being drowned." — Dr. Johnson. VOL. I. SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, LOW, & SEARLE, CROWN BUILDINGS, FLEET STREET. 1875.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pàgines
...belliswater, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help ? Boswell's Life of yohnson. 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... | |
 | 1902 - 728 pàgines
...sea-travel can ever atone for its trials, and one feels disposed to accept Johnson's dictum that " being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned," with another disagreeable contingency superadded ; for seasickness, whatever part one's mental temperament... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 346 pàgines
...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...with the chance of being drowned." And at another time, "A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company." — Boswell. He said,... | |
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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'. 
