 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...firsthand, 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 into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.' ' A man in a jail... | |
 | Billy Gordon Smith - History - 1990 - 276 pages
...Hamburg.12 Most people did not hold the life of a common mariner in high esteem. As Samuel Johnson observed, "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... | |
 | Philip Edwards - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 272 pages
...pressed into the Navy and had managed to get his release after nine months. Johnson said, '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'.12 It was this extraordinary... | |
 | Patrick Obrian - Fiction - 1995 - 322 pages
...to be 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... | |
 | John Donne - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 1158 pages
...is a ship but a prison?") in The Anatomy of Melancholy (pan 2, sect. 3,memb. 4} and Samuel Johnson ("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") in Boswell's Life... | |
 | Archie Green - Labor - 1996 - 300 pages
...abhorrent sea duty. Biographer James Boswell used this action to report Johnson s view of maritime life: "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" (Boswell [1791],... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...(1723-1780) British jurist. Commentaries on the Laws of England, bk. 1 , ch. 1 3 (1 765-1 769). into a jail; for being in a 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. SAMUEL JOHNSON, (1 709-1 784)... | |
 | David A. Chappell - History - 1997 - 268 pages
...Yet Samuel Johnson claimed, "No man will be a sailor who has the contrivance to get himself into a jail; for being in a 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."13 Old hands taught neophytes... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...to great undertakings. 5199 Shame arises from the fear of man; conscience from the fear of God. 5200 ve 5201 (shortly before he died) lam moriturus. I who am about to die. 5202 Silence propagates itself,... | |
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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'. 
