 | James Boswell - 1884 - 544 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...a 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 216 pages
...Johnson often enlarged upon the wretchedness of a sea-life. ' Why, Sir,' said he, ' no man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself...a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned.' — Boswell's Life of Johnson, v. 137. P. 58, 1. 23. naval. Johnson defines naval as ' 1.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 558 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...a 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 480 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...a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned." pastry. Dr. Johnson maxie her a present of a book which he had bought at Inverness.1 The... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pages
...a state of life of which Johnson always expressed the utmost abhorrence. He said, " No man will be to give such accounts as I can gather. Be pleased...Sir, " Your most humble servant, "SAM. JOHNSON." drowned." \ And at another time, "A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company."... | |
 | JAMES BOSWELL - 1892
...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...a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned." pastry. Dr. Johnson maxle her a present of a book which he had bought at Inverness.1 The... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 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. "b And at another time, " A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better... | |
 | 1902 - 698 pages
...Johnson's works, but in Boswell's "Life," under date of March 16, 1759. "No man," said Johnson, "will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself...ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." Seventeen years later (March 18, 1776) Boswell records: "He took occasion to enlarge, as... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 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 V And at another time, 'A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company... | |
 | 1909 - 304 pages
...surprises. There is a delightful touch of surprise in his comparison of a ship to a jail. ' 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 again, ' A man in jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.' The... | |
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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'. 
