 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...paints them vividly in Roderick Random. Johnson always had a horror of the life at sea. ' 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.' ' A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company' (Life 1. 348).... | |
 | Lacy Collison-Morley - 1909 - 404 pages
...profitable. Baretti had no love for the sea. He doubtless thought with Johnson that "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 on another occasion he declared that " a man in a jail has more room, better food,... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 196 pages
...surprises. Q 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1917 - 612 pages
...drowned.' And at another time, 'A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.' The letter was as follows: — 'Chelsea, March 16,...in behalf of that great CHAM of literature, Samuel Johnson. His black servant, whose name is Francis Barber, has been pressed on board the Stag Frigate,... | |
 | Horace West Household - 1917 - 210 pages
...Johnson could never understand why any man should go to sea. " No man will be a sailor," he said once, " who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail...ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." Another time he said, " A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company."... | |
 | Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - 1921 - 332 pages
...for their good sense and sound judgment, but for their freshness and unexpectedness. " 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 ... a man in jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company." " Men know that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1924 - 562 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... | |
 | Ronald Arbuthnott Knox - 1928 - 296 pages
...logion which compares a ship to a prison. The Journal for August 3 1 , gives this : " No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself...ship" is being in a jail, with the chance of being dfpwned." And under September 23 the same document gives " The man in a jail has more room, better... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...habitable places death, pox and drunkenness. Ned Ward (1667-1731) English humorous writer 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 ... A man in a jail has more room, better food and commonly better company. Dr. Samuel Johnson... | |
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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'. 
