 | Bill Moore - Cooking - 1987 - 180 pages
...ship, To sail and sail and sail! WALT WHITMAN Dr. Samuel Johnson, of dictionary fame, hated ships. He said: No man will be a sailor who has contrivance...jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with a chance of being drowned ... A man in jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company!... | |
 | Marcus Rediker - History - 1987 - 334 pages
...captured merchantmen as volunteers, for reasons suggested by Dr. Samuel Johnson's observation that "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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...conveying to all habitable places death, pox and drunkenness. Ned Ward (1667-1731) English humorous writer No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough...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. Dr. Samuel Johnson... | |
 | 1915 - 766 pages
...sailors, he said it impressively, as it were the Spirit of Terra Firma speaking in sardonic voice, — "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,... | |
 | J. C. Beaglehole - Biography & Autobiography - 1992 - 828 pages
...value Dr Johnson's reflections on the sailor's life in general, that no man would be a sailor, who had contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; 'for,...ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned'. Men enough went to sea to give the lie to that remark; the merchant service at least was... | |
 | Philip Edwards - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 272 pages
...pressed into the Navy and had managed to get his release after nine months. Johnson said, 'Why, sir, no man will be a sailor, who has contrivance enough...ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned'.12 It was this extraordinary jail, cramped and crowded, with livestock on deck and sick men... | |
 | Billy Gordon Smith - History - 1990 - 276 pages
...Hamburg.12 Most people did not hold the life of a common mariner in high esteem. As Samuel Johnson observed, "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... | |
 | 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...ship is 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,... | |
 | Patrick Obrian - Fiction - 1995 - 322 pages
...to be thrown down, which could never have happened at sea. And in Florence, his pocket was picked." "No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail," said the heavy gentleman, in a booming roar, "for being in a ship is being in a jail, with a chance... | |
 | 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...ship is 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... | |
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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. 
