 | American periodicals - 1877 - 826 pages
...conversations so tenaciously remembered by the admiring Boswell. As to the sailor (said the great moralist), when you look down from the quarter-deck to the space...you see the utmost extremity of human misery, such crowding, such filth, such stench ! Boswtll. Yet sailors are happy. Johnson. They are happy as brutes... | |
 | 1882 - 252 pages
...horrible crowding anil neglect of ventilation that used to prevail. We read that JOHNSON once observed, "As to the sailor, when you look down from the quarter-deck...you see the utmost extremity of human misery ; such crowding, such filth, such stench !" BOSWKLL — "Yet sailors are happy." JOHNSON — "They are happy... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 pages
...hear a lecture in philosophy;' and Charles, laying his hand on his sword, to say, ' Follow me, and dethrone the Czar,' a man would be ashamed to follow...you see the utmost extremity of human misery ; such crowding, such filth, such stench!" BOSWELL. " Yet sailors are happy." JOHNSON. " They are happy as... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 pages
...hear a lecture in philosophy:' and Charles, laying his hand on his sword, to say, ' Follow me, and dethrone the Czar:' a man would be ashamed to follow...you see the utmost extremity of human misery ; such crowding, such filth, such stench!" BOSWELL. "Yet sailors are happy." JOHNSON. " They are happy as... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 634 pages
...philosophy ;' and Charles, laying his hand on his sword, to say, ' Follow me, and dethrone the Czar,1 a man would be ashamed to follow Socrates. Sir, the...you see the utmost extremity of human misery ; such crowding, such filth, such stench!" BOSWELL. " Yet sailors are happy." JOHNSON. " They are happy as... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1885 - 436 pages
...hear a lecture in philosophy ; ' and Charles, laying his hand on his sword, to say, ' Follow me, and dethrone the Czar ; ' a man would be ashamed to follow...quarter-deck to the space below, you see the utmost 12 Ap., 1781,) who had fallen into distress by wit or by negligence, was as memorable. He sent him... | |
 | William White - Smallpox - 1885 - 696 pages
...have had a more congenial breeding-place than the crew of a man-of-war ! As Dr. Johnson observed, " When you look down from the quarter-deck to the space...you see the utmost extremity of human misery ; such crowding, such filth, such stench !"* Incited by the enthusi* Boswell (Croker's Ed.) vol. vii. p. 102.... | |
 | William White - Smallpox - 1885 - 740 pages
...have had a more congenial breeding-place than the crew of a man-of-war ! As Dr. Johnson observed, " When you look down from the quarter-deck to the space...you see the utmost extremity of human misery; such crowding, such filth, such stench !"* Incited by the enthusi* Boswell (Croker's Ed.) vol. vii. p. 102.... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1887 - 490 pages
...hear a lecture on philosophy ; " and Charles, laying his hand on his sword, to say, " Follow me, and dethrone the Czar ; " a man would be ashamed to follow...strange. As to the sailor, when you look down from the quarter deck to the space below, you see the utmost extremity of human misery ; such crouding, such... | |
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.Follow me, and hear a lecture in philosophy ;' and Charles, laying his hand on his sword, to say, ' Follow me, and dethrone the czar;' a man would be ashamed to follow Socrates. 
