| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...would have been happy to hear of this." ' Ante, iii. 183. a jail ; August 31.] Cockers ARITHMETIC. 157 a jail ; for, being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned1.' We had tea in the afternoon, and our landlord's daughter, a modest civil girl, very neatly... | |
| James Boswell - 1791 - 564 pages
...get himfelf into a jail ; for being in a fhip is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned8." And at another time, " A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company9." " Dr. Robert Vanfittart, of the ancient and refpectable family of thafname in Berkfhire.... | |
| Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...he got off. — Johnson. " Why, Sir, no man will " be a sailor, who has contrivance enough to get <t himself into a jail ; for, being in a ship is being...** in a jail with the chance of being drowned.'?. ?r Bower t Tour to tbe Hebrides, £. rjr. ... . ^ : , KAVAL DESrOTISM. 37! 01 . •'- • " ' ft.,... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...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...room, better food, and commonly better company'.' The letter was as follows: — 'Chelsea, March 16, 1759. •DEAR SIR, ' I am again your petitioner,... | |
| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...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...room, better food, and commonly better company'.' The letter was as follows: — •Chelsea, March 16, 1759. 'DEAR SIR, ' I am again your petitioner,... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...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...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." 8 And at another time, " A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company."... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...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...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." 8 And at another time, " A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company."... | |
| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1810 - 438 pages
...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...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 drest, made... | |
| Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...procuring his release from a state of life which he regarded with abhorrence. " No man," he said, " will be a sailor, who has contrivance enough to get himself...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." f It appears from Smollett's correspondence with Mr Wilkes, that " the great Cham of literature was... | |
| James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...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...chance of being drowned." And at another time, " A mau in a jxil has more room, better food, and commonly better company." The letter was as follows:... | |
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