 | Donald G. Shomette - 2007 - 460 pagina’s
...made. The famed English man of letters Dr. Samuel Johnson once wrote, not so facetiously, that "no man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in jail with the chance of being drowned." Indeed, the life expectancy... | |
 | Ben Johnson - 2008 - 216 pagina’s
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 | Joseph Conrad - 2008 - 10 pagina’s
...his Life of Johnson (1791), which is, inter alia, a diary of Johnson's conversation: for example, 'No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.' 130.6 Peruvian After wresting its independence from Spanish rule in 1821, Peru retained contact with... | |
 | James Nelson - 2008 - 320 pagina’s
...she had appealed for advice. Ball was of the same mind as Samuel Johnson, who famously said that "no man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail." Ball told Mary that George would be better off "aprentice to a tinker," because if he shipped out as... | |
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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'. 
