| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pagina’s
...to great undertakings. 5199 Shame arises from the fear of man; conscience from the fear of God. 5200 ve 5201 (shortly before he died) lam moriturus. I who am about to die. 5202 Silence propagates itself,... | |
| Ezra Pound, Olivia Rossetti Agresti - 1998 - 376 pagina’s
...by James Boswell in The /ournal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, 31 August 1759: "No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a )ail; for being on a ship is being in a )ail with the chance of being drowned. ... A man in a )ail... | |
| Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 pagina’s
...delightful in prospect but straightway wracked by sickening storms.10 Johnson detested the sailor's life — "being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned"11 — and evokes it whenever he wants to "fix the lowest point to which humanity could fall,"... | |
| William Galvani - 1999 - 236 pagina’s
...merry might he be. Verses from a song sung by women in Gosport, England, in the late 18th century 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, 1759 When men... | |
| Lawrence Block - 2009 - 384 pagina’s
...wording." "Dr. Johnson," he said, "and one could hardly do that. Improve the man's wording, that is. 'Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.' He said that as well, and I defy anyone to comment more trenchantly on the experience, or to say it... | |
| 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).... | |
| James Charlton - 2002 - 204 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... | |
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