 | James Boswell - 1860 - 496 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.)... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pagina’s
...is not properly a general one ; but whether one or the other is best for my son. — Johnson, 291. BEING in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.— 308. THE only way to make a pig go forward is to pull him back by the tail.— 388. EITHER yesterday... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1867 - 158 pagina’s
...a wound. Great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger. A SHIP COMPARED TO A JAIL. No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. SPENDING MONEY. No money is... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 pagina’s
...struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help ? Ibid. 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... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pagina’s
...release from a state of life of which Johnson always expressed the utmost abhorrence. Ho said, ' Xo man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a ship is Ix-ing in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.'1 And at another time, ' A man in a jail ha« more... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pagina’s
...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...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 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...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 pagina’s
...to 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... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1875 - 324 pagina’s
...JOHN HOLDSWORTH: CHIEF MATE. JOHN HOLDSWORTH: CHIEF MATE. Jl §torg, in BY THE AUTHOR OF "JILTED." - ' No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough...being in a jail with the chance of being drowned."— Dr. Johnson. VOL. III. Qan'ben: SAMPSON LOW, MAESTON, LOW, & SEAELE, CROWN BUILDINGS, FLEET STREET.... | |
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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. 
