 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pagina’s
...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.] And... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 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...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,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pagina’s
...not pressed as has been supposed, but with his own consent, it appears from a letter to John Willies, about liberty and slavery. I mentioned to him that...the approach of a stranger all the inhabitants catch \_Augunt9i\. 1773.] And at another time, " A man in a jail has ' Dr. Robert VamltUrt. of the ancient... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 pagina’s
...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 - 1851 - 410 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 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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 - 950 pagina’s
...but he has refused me. And I have clapped my hands till they are sore, at Dr. King's speech." 5 His negro servant, Francis Barber, having left him, and...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pagina’s
...pressed as has been supposed, but with his own consent, it appears from a letter to John WilkeSjEsq., ; but that it had grown up in his mind insensibly." I have [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 pagina’s
...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,... | |
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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. 
