 | Early English newspapers - 1905 - 870 pages
...Johnson hated the sea, as the devil is said to hate holy water. " No man will be a sailor," said he, " 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." Yet here he was, exposing himself to the tempestuous seas... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 628 pages
...supposed, but with his own consent, it appears from a letter to John Wilkes, Esq., from Dr. Smollett, that his master kindly interested himself in procuring...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." J And at another time, " A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company."... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - United States - 1907 - 354 pages
...Then he quoted Dr. Johnson: "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"; and further to overwhelm me, he clinched the saying by a comment of his own. " In a ship of war you run... | |
 | English literature - 1909 - 304 pages
...abounds in surprises. 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...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 same dislike of... | |
 | 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...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). See passage... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1910 - 602 pages
...have an home. I wish I could give it you. I am, my dear Sir, " Affectionately yourX " SAM. JOHNSON." l He now refreshed himself by an excursion to Oxford,...jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company." 0 The letter was as follows: " Chelsea, March 16, 1759. " DEAR SIR,—I am again your petitioner,... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 196 pages
...abounds in 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...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 same dislike of... | |
 | Stanley V. Makower, Basil H. Blackwell - English essays - 1913 - 614 pages
...traveller in a malarious country. It is easy enough to understand the opinion of Dr. Johnson : ' Why, sir,' he said, ' no man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail.' You would fancy any one's spirit would die out under such an accumulation of darkness, noisomeness,... | |
 | Lewis Worthington Smith - American prose literature - 1916 - 312 pages
...traveler in a malarious country. It is easy enough to understand the opinion of Dr. Johnson: " Why, sir," he said, " no man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail." You would fancy anyone's spirit would die out under such 30 an accumulation of darkness, noisomeness,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1917 - 606 pages
...thrice, which I had disused for many years. I have proposed to Vansittart, climbing over the wall, but he has refused me. And I have clapped my hands till...jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.' The letter was as follows: — 'Chelsea, March 16, 1759. 'DEAR SIR, I am again your petitioner,... | |
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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. 
