 | Jeffrey Grey - 1999 - 316 pagina’s
...than the army, at least by those who were not in it. Samuel Johnson, acerbic as ever, thought that 'no man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail', but 'Jolly Jack Tar' enjoyed popular hero status during the Napoleonic Wars and after, although... | |
 | Peter Linebaugh, Marcus Rediker - 2000 - 458 pagina’s
...reasons are not difficult to fathom. Dr. Samuel Johnson put the matter succinctly when he said, "No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to...himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in jail with the chance of being drowned. ... A man in jail has more room, better food, and commonly better... | |
 | Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - 2000 - 478 pagina’s
...pirate life. The seaman's life was in any case hard. The English writer Samuel Johnson quipped that "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. ... A man in jail has... | |
 | Richard Jacobs - 2001 - 504 pagina’s
...1962, pp. 288-9) Nor was Johnson very inclined to romanticise the lives of soldiers and sailors. 'No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned ... A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company' (Boswell, 1979, p. 86).... | |
 | Jay Parini - 2002 - 550 pagina’s
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 | C.R. Pennell - 2001 - 388 pagina’s
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 | Richard Jacobs - 2001 - 481 pagina’s
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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'. 
