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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. "
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the ... - Page 212
by James Boswell - 1888
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The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 2: The Elegies

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...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned") in Boswell's Life of Johnson (ed. Powell [1934], 1:348) (130). 22 that wears like to fall, SMITH (1971):...
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In Bed with an Elephant

Ludovic Henry Coverley Kennedy, Ludovic Kennedy - History - 1995 - 436 pages
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The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 2: The Elegies

John Donne - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 1160 pages
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The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations

Ned Sherrin - Quotations, English - 1995 - 584 pages
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Calf's Head & Union Tale: Labor Yarns at Work and Play

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...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned" (Boswell [1791], vol. 1, 348). On a tour of the Hebrides in 1773, Johnson repeated this sentiment to...
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Not Entitled: A Memoir

Frank Kermode - Critics - 1995 - 280 pages
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Enlightenment and Exploration in the North Pacific, 1741-1805

Cook Inlet Historical Society, Anchorage Museum of History and Art - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 236 pages
...eighteenth-century embodiment of wit and intelligence, Dr. Samuel Johnson, should have said of a nautical vocation, "No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough...ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.2 There were positive features, however, to seafaring, especially for a sailor in a British...
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Double Ghosts: Oceanian Voyagers on Euroamerican Ships

David A. Chappell - Business & Economics - 1997 - 266 pages
...vice than reformatories." 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." Old hands taught neophytes...
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...BLACKSTONE, (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)...
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Echoes of the Sea: Scotland and the Sea : an Anthology

Brian D. Osborne, Ronald Armstrong - Coasts - 1998 - 440 pages
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