 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help ? An. 1755. Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. An. 1759. The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the liigh-road that leads him to England.... | |
 | Cyril Church - 1883 - 854 pages
...lost the civility of traders without acquiring the manners of gentlemen." Of sailors he said — " 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." There are many sayings... | |
 | Frederick Whymper - 1883 - 712 pages
...that carried by his opinion, considered going to sea a species of insanity.* " No man," said he, " 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." The great lexicographer... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 544 pages
...off. JOHNSON. " Why, Sir, 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." We had tea in the afternoon, and our landlord's daughter, a modest, civil girl, very neatly dressed,... | |
 | James Hay - Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 - 1884 - 376 pages
...enlarged mind ; but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind." Of sailors, he said : " 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." Speaking of old... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 742 pages
...release from a state of life of which Johnson always expressed the utmost abhorrence. He once 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 a jail, with the 1 Lord Stowell informs me that he prided... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 722 pages
...abhorrence. He once said,4 " 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 1 Lord Stowell informs me that he prided himself in being, during his visits to Oxford, accurately... | |
 | Garboard Streyke - Great Britain - 1884 - 136 pages
...if the pompous and prejudiced old Doctor was as far from the mark as I used to think when he said, " No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get him into a jail, for being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned." THE END.... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - English literature - 1884 - 536 pages
...found to deliberately enter the service, and continue to follow it as a calling. " No man," he said, " 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." When on his tour... | |
 | Henry John Webber - 1885 - 90 pages
...himself of very foolish maxims. He considered going to sea a species of insanity. " No man," said he, " will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." If all Englishmen sympathised with him in this respect, where would England be ? If people were to... | |
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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'. 
