 | Tim Zimmermann - 2002 - 358 pagina’s
...would soon become the most vibrant, compelling competition in the sport of sailing. MODERN MAYHEM 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 IN 1973,... | |
 | Geoffrey Till - 2004 - 452 pagina’s
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 | Tom Watkins - 2004 - 130 pagina’s
...lecture, sailed, hung out in the Keys, and . . . Ah, but I'm ahead of myself. 1 Florida and the Keys 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 Beau is 6'6"... | |
 | Thomas Pynchon - 1997 - 788 pagina’s
...miracle in that year of miracles, 1759, upon whose Ides of March Dr. Johnson happen'd to remark, "No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." Some would call her a Frigate, though officially she is a couple of guns shy, causing others to add... | |
 | Conrad Brunström - 2004 - 220 pagina’s
...another nightmare version of being on board ship. (Cowper would have endorsed Johnson's remark: "No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.")"' Like many of the Olney Hymns (not to mention "The Castaway"), the bullfinch poem consists of a mixture... | |
 | Marcus Rediker - 2004 - 270 pagina’s
...captured merchantmen as volunteers, for reasons suggested by Samuel Johnson's observation that "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... | |
 | Stephen R. Bown - 2004 - 270 pagina’s
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 | Stephen K. Batalden, Kathleen Cann, John Dean - 2004 - 396 pagina’s
...define a sailor. His response was simple and to the point: No man will be a sailor, who has contrivance to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.2 Why, therefore, did organized seafarers' missions finally emerge at the time they did and... | |
 | Pamela Sisman Bitterman - 2004 - 380 pagina’s
...author at the helm of the Sofia chapter 2. Into the Teeth of Hurricane Kendra J/Ly J/Laiden Voyage Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. SAMUEL JOHNSON INTRODUCTION I boarded the tall ship in Boston on August 20, 1978. We left the harbor... | |
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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'. 
