 | William Clark Russell - 1875 - 282 pages
...JOHN HOLDSWORTH: CHIEF MATE. JOHN HOLDSWORTH: CHEF MATE.Storg, in <3Thm BY THE AUTHOR OF "JILTED." "No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough...being in a jail with the chance of being drowned." — Dr. Johnson. VOL. I. SECOND EDITION. SAMPSON LOW, MABSTOJST, LOW, & SEABLE, CEOWN BUILDINGS, FLEET... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1875 - 324 pages
...JOHN HOLDSWORTH: CHIEF MATE. JOHN HOLDSWORTH: CHIEF MATE. Jl §torg, in BY THE AUTHOR OF "JILTED." - ' No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough...being in a jail with the chance of being drowned."— Dr. Johnson. VOL. III. Qan'ben: SAMPSON LOW, MAESTON, LOW, & SEAELE, CROWN BUILDINGS, FLEET STREET.... | |
 | Literature - 1902 - 728 pages
...sea-travel can ever atone for its trials, and one feels disposed to accept Johnson's dictum that " being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned," with another disagreeable contingency superadded ; for seasickness, whatever part one's mental temperament... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...belliswater, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help ? Boswell's Life of yohnson. An. 1755. Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. ibid. An. 1759. The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high-road that leads him to... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1880 - 488 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 enough to get himself into jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." (Aug. 31, 1773.)... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - Anecdotes - 1882 - 638 pages
...The more a man extends and varies his acquaintance, the better." "No man will be a sailor," he said, "who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being on a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned ; " and at another time, " A man in... | |
 | Frederick Whymper - 1883 - 712 pages
...that carried by his opinion, considered going to sea a species of insanity.* " No man," said he, " will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." The great lexicographer knew Fleet Street better than he did the fleet, and his opinion, as expressed... | |
 | Cyril Church - 1883 - 854 pages
...for they have lost the civility of traders without acquiring the manners of gentlemen." 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." There are many sayings... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help ? An. 1755. Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. An. 1759. The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the liigh-road that leads him to England.... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 742 pages
...wall, but he has refused me. And I have clapped my hands till they are sore, at Dr. King's speech." His negro servant, Francis Barber, having left him, and...; 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... | |
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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. 
