 | Patrick Obrian - 1995 - 322 pages
...thrown down, which could never have happened at sea. And in Florence, his pocket was picked." "No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail," said the heavy gentleman, in a booming roar, "for being in a ship is being in a jail, with a chance... | |
 | Ezra Pound, Olivia Rossetti Agresti - 1998 - 376 pages
...James Boswell in The /ournal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, 31 August 1759: "No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a )ail; for being on a ship is being in a )ail with the chance of being drowned. ... A man in a )ail... | |
 | Jeffrey Grey - 1999 - 316 pages
...the army, at least by those who were not in it. Samuel Johnson, acerbic as ever, thought that 'no man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail', but 'Jolly Jack Tar' enjoyed popular hero status during the Napoleonic Wars and after, although... | |
 | Peter Linebaugh, Marcus Rediker - 2000 - 458 pages
...reasons are not difficult to fathom. Dr. Samuel Johnson put the matter succinctly when he said, "No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get...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... | |
 | Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - 2000 - 478 pages
...life. The seaman's life was in any case hard. The English writer Samuel Johnson quipped that "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. ... A man in jail has... | |
 | Conrad Allen - 2002 - 308 pages
...so that the whole group could hear him. "Do you know what Samuel Johnson said about the sea? 'No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail, since being in a ship is being in jail, with the chance of getting drowned.' Good point." "Harvey!"... | |
 | Sheila O'Connell - 2003 - 300 pages
...as salvation for street children (cat. 3.26), Samuel Johnson's view was more commonly held: '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 ... A man in a gaol... | |
 | Marcus Rediker - 2004 - 270 pages
...captured merchantmen as volunteers, for reasons suggested by Samuel Johnson's observation that "no man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get...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... | |
 | John Bulkeley - 2004 - 278 pages
...the land forces that were going to wreak havoc amongst the Spanish colonies and possessions. '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. A man in jail has more... | |
 | Steven Stoker - 2004 - 459 pages
...107:23-24 The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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. — Samuel Johnson... | |
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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. 
