 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...a state of life of which Johnson always expressed the utmost abhorrence. He said, ' No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself...ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned'.' And at another time, 'A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company'.'... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...a state of life of which Johnson always expressed the utmost abhorrence. He said, ' No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself...ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned'.' And at another time, 'A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company'.'... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...a state of life of which Johnson always expressed the utmost abhorrence. He said, " No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself...ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." 8 And at another time, " A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better... | |
 | James Boswell - 1810 - 438 pages
...in it longer than nine months, after which time he got off. — Johnson. " Why, sir, no man will be a sailor, who has contrivance enough to get himself...ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." We had tea in the afternoon, and our landlord's daughter, a modest civil girl, very neatly... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pages
...procuring his release from a state of life which he regarded with abhorrence. " No man," he said, " will be a sailor, who has contrivance enough to get himself...ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." f It appears from Smollett's correspondence with Mr Wilkes, that " the great Cham of literature... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...from a state of life of which Johnson always expressed the utmost abhorrence. He said, "No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself...ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." And at another time, " A mau in a jxil has more room, better food, and commonly better company."... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 388 pages
...a state of life of which Johnson always expressed the utmost abhorrence. He said, " No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself...ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." 3 1 Dr. Robert Vansittart, of the ancient and respectable family of that name in Berkshire.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 pages
...a state of life of which Johnson always expressed the utmost abhorrence. He said, " No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself...ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." 6 And at another 4 Dr. Robert Vansittart, of the ancient and respectable family of that name... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 508 pages
...a state of life of which Johnson always expressed the utmost abhorrence. He said, " No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself...ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." ° And at another « Dr. Robert Vansittart, of the ancient and respectable family of that... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 440 pages
...a state of life of which Johnson always expressed the utmost abhorrence. He said, " No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself...ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned z." And at another time, " A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better... | |
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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'. 
