 | James Boswell - 1884 - 544 pages
...choose to continue in it longer than nine months, after which time he got off. JOHNSON. " Why, Sir, no man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough...being in a jail with the chance of being drowned." We had tea in the afternoon, and our landlord's daughter, a modest, civil girl, very neatly dressed,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 722 pages
...release from a state of life of which Johnson always expressed the utmost abhorrence. He once said,4 " No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough...; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the 1 Lord Stowell informs me that he prided himself in being, during his visits to Oxford, accurately... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 pages
...may quote me for it, that there are more gentlemen in Scotland than there are shoes." No man will be 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. In ridicule of Percy's Hermit of Warkworth, he submitted these... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 376 pages
...of an enlarged mind ; but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind." Of sailors, he said : " No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a gaol ; for being in a ship is being in a gaol, with the chance of being drowned." Speaking of old maids,... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 400 pages
...tree generous which sheds its fruit at every breeze. — Journal. November n. Bos well's Collectanea. No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a gaol ; for being in a ship is being in a gaol, with the chance of being drowned. — Journal. August... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - 1884 - 536 pages
...found to deliberately enter the service, and continue to follow it as a calling. " No man," he said, " will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a gaol ; for being in a ship is being in a gaol, with the chance of being drowned." When on his tour... | |
 | Garboard Streyke - 1884 - 136 pages
...wondering if the pompous and prejudiced old Doctor was as far from the mark as I used to think when he said, " No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get him into a jail, for being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned." THE END.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 454 pages
...choose to continue in it longer than nine months, after which time he got off. — JOHNSON : " Why, sir, no man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a gaol ; for being in a ship is being in a gaol, with the chance of being drowned." We had tea in the... | |
 | Henry John Webber - 1885 - 90 pages
...himself of very foolish maxims. He considered going to sea a species of insanity. " No man," said he, " 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." If all Englishmen... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 598 pages
...procuring his release from a state of life of which Johnson always expressed the utmost abhorrence. He said, ' No man will be a sailor who has contrivance...ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned3.' And at another time, 'A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company4.'... | |
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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. 
