 | William Galvani - Reference - 1999 - 236 pages
...and merry might he be. Verses from a song sung by women in Gosport, England, in the late 18th century No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... A man in jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. SAMUEL JOHNSON, 1759 When men... | |
 | Peter Linebaugh, Marcus Rediker - Capitalism - 2000 - 458 pages
...captured. Their reasons are not difficult to fathom. Dr. Samuel Johnson put the matter succinctly when he said, "No man will be a sailor who has contrivance...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... | |
 | Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - History - 2000 - 478 pages
...Samuel Johnson quipped that "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. ... A man in jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company."8 But unlike on merchantmen,... | |
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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. 
