 | J. R. Hill - History - 2005 - 114 pages
...757, but his analysis was subjected to ill-conceived \ experiments for three '"••-. more decades. 'No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned . . . ' Dr Samuel Johnson, 1759 THE EAST INDIA COMPANY THE NABOB Warren Hastings, Governor General... | |
 | Gerald Horne - History - 2005 - 359 pages
...slaves, laborers at sea had faced particularly oppressive conditions. As Samuel Johnson once put it, "No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough...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... | |
 | Trevor Norton - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 412 pages
...souvenirs to be collected; they were still personal items belonging the crew. Samuel Johnson declared that 'No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough...jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail with a chance of being drowned'. Wrecks are the result of a catastrophe and sometimes the victims remain... | |
 | Dan Doll, Jessica Munns - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006 - 260 pages
...1993), 4-5. 26. "Why Sir, No man will be a Sailor if he has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for, being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." James Boswell, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, ed. by R. Chapman (Oxford: Oxford University Press,... | |
 | Hugh Edwards - Transportation - 2006 - 256 pages
...British man of letters Dr Samuel Johnson, Wo man will be a sailor who has contrivance 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 room, better food, and commonly better company. ' The crew of the Roebuck saw... | |
 | Edward G. Gray - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 238 pages
...difficulties of life at sea merely added to a commander's stress. As Samuel Johnson famously remarked, "No man will be a sailor, who has contrivance enough...ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned."18 And in some sense Johnson was right, especially regarding ordinary seamen. The men were... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 2008 - 1024 pages
...wall, but he has refused me. And I have clapped my hands till they are sore, at Dr King's speech.'2 His negro servant, Francis Barber, having left him,...ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.'3 And at another time, 'A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.'4... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Fiction - 2008 - 10 pages
...in his Life of Johnson (1791), which is, inter alia, a diary of Johnson's conversation: for example, 'No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.' 130.6 Peruvian After wresting its independence from Spanish rule in 1821, Peru retained contact with... | |
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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. 
