 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pagina’s
...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 1 ' From him we first heard of the general dissatisfaction which is now driving the Highlanders into... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 564 pagina’s
...a jail ; for being in a fhip is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned8." And at another time, " A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company9." " Dr. Robert Vanfittart, of the ancient and refpectable family of thafname in Berkfhire.... | |
 | 1795 - 432 pagina’s
...he got off. — Johnson. " Why, Sir, no man will " be a sailor, who has contrivance enough to get <t himself into a jail ; for, being in a ship is being...** in a jail with the chance of being drowned.'?. ?r Bower t Tour to tbe Hebrides, £. rjr. ... . ^ : , KAVAL DESrOTISM. 37! 01 . •'- • " ' ft.,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pagina’s
...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'.' The letter was as... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pagina’s
...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'.' The letter was as... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pagina’s
...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...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." 8 And at another time, " A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company."... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807
...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...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." 8 And at another time, " A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company."... | |
 | James Boswell - 1810 - 438 pagina’s
...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 drest, made... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pagina’s
...procuring his release from a state of life which he regarded with abhorrence. " No man," he said, " will be a sailor, who has contrivance enough to get...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." f It appears from Smollett's correspondence with Mr Wilkes, that " the great Cham of literature was... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 470 pagina’s
...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 mau in a jxil has more room, better food, and commonly better company." The letter was as... | |
| |
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'. 
