 | Charles E. Davis - 1893 - 570 pàgines
...transferred, and it was "good riddance to bad rubbish " when they left. According to Samuel Johnson, " Heing in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." Hence the appropriateness of transferring our substitutes. On the 1gth of April an order was received... | |
 | Charles E. Davis - 1893 - 558 pàgines
...transferred, and it was "good riddance to bad rubbish" when they left. According to Samuel Johnson, " Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." Hence the appropriateness of transferring our substitutes. On the 1 9th of April an order was received... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 380 pàgines
...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 any one's spirit would die out under such an accumula:J tion of darkness, noisomeness^... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 388 pàgines
...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 any one's spirit would die out under such an accumulation of darkness, noisomeness,... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pàgines
...Ships that sailed for sunny isles, But never came to shore. r. THOS. HERVEY — The Devits Progress. 41 s. SAM'L JOHNSON — BoswelVs Life of Johnson. An. 1759. And the wind plays on those great sonorous... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 556 pàgines
...not chuse to continue 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 drest, made... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pàgines
...a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." J And at another alousy." March 16, 1759. "DEAR SIR, " I am again your petitioner, in behalf of that great CHAM || of literature,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 pàgines
...jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. "b And at another time, " A man in a jail has more room, better food,...company."* The letter was as follows : « Chelsea, March 16, 1759. " DEAR SIR, — I am again your petitioner, in behalf of that great chum4 of literature... | |
 | Huber Gray Buehler - 1900 - 308 pàgines
...is a collection of books. 1 6. The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. 17. Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. 18. To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step toward knowledge. 19. The winds and waves... | |
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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'. 
