 | James Charlton - 2002 - 182 pagina’s
...is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors. BERNARD MONTGOMERY No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. SAMUEL JOHNSON SOLDIERS Men... | |
 | John S. Burnett - 2002 - 332 pagina’s
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 | Steve Turner - 2009 - 304 pagina’s
...sea during this period was "No man will be a sailor who has a contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jaiL with the chance of being drowned." A contemporary proverb said much the same thing: "He who would go to sea for pleasure. would go to... | |
 | Richard Zacks - 2002 - 426 pagina’s
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 | Lawrence Block - 2009 - 896 pagina’s
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 | Conrad Allen - 2002 - 288 pagina’s
...voice so that the whole group could hear him. "Do you know what Samuel Johnson said about the sea? 'No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail, since being in a ship is being in jail, with the chance of getting drowned.' Good point." "Harvey!"... | |
 | Jeremy Lewis - 2003 - 316 pagina’s
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 | Sheila O'Connell, Roy Porter, Celina Fox, Ralph Hyde - 2003 - 272 pagina’s
...life as salvation for street children (cat. 3.26), Samuel Johnson's view was more commonly held: '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 ... A man in a gaol... | |
 | Carl E. Van Horn, Herbert A. Schaffner - 2003 - 741 pagina’s
...navy. Seafaring has long been an occupation both dangerous and unpleasant. As Samuel Johnson 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." Andrew Furuseth, the... | |
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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'. 
