 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pages
...to continue 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 into 1 ' From him we first heard of the general dissatisfaction which is now driving the Highlanders into... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...release from a etate 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 into a ¡ail ; for being in a ship is being in • jail, with the chance of being drowned," And at another... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...to continue in it longer than nine months, after which time he got off. JOHNSON. " Why, sir, no man acquire it. " The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If snip is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." We had tea in the afternoon, and our landlord's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pages
...release 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 into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." [Aug. 31. 1773.] And... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 pages
...release 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 into jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." [Aug. 31. 1773.]... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 410 pages
...continue 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 into a gaol ; for being in a ship is being in a gaol, with the chance of being drowned." We had tea in the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 482 pages
...release 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 into jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." (Aug. 31, 1773.)... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1878 - 838 pages
...country. It is easy enough to understand the opinion of Dr. Johnson : " Why, sir," he said, " no man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail." You would fancy anyone's spirit would die out under such an accumulation of darkness, noisomeness,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 496 pages
...release 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 into jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." (Aug. 31, 1773.)... | |
 | G. Cameron - 1874 - 404 pages
...my esteem, and his mode of treating his son was by no means calculated to honour. CHAPTER X. "No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a ship u being in a jail, with a chance of being drowned." — Da. JOHNSON. By sunrise the next morning I... | |
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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. 
