 | James Boswell - 1785 - 546 oldal
...man will be a failor, who has contrivance enough to get himfelf into a jail ; for, being in a fhip is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned."...tea in the afternoon, and our landlord's daughter, a modeft civil girl, very neatly dreft, made it for us. She told us, fhe had been a year at Invernefs,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1786 - 478 oldal
...no man will be a failor, who has contrivance enough to get himfelf into a jail; for, being inafhip is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned."...tea in the afternoon, and our landlord's daughter, a modeft civil girl, very neatly dreft, made it for us. She told us, me had been a year at Invernefs,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 oldal
...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... | |
 | 1795 - 432 oldal
...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 - 640 oldal
...Johnson always expressed the utmost abhorrence. He said, ' No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned'.' And at another time, 'A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company'.' The... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 oldal
...Johnson always expressed the utmost abhorrence. He said, ' No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned'.' And at another time, 'A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company'.' The... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 oldal
...Johnson always expressed the utmost abhorrence. He said, " No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a...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 - 1810 - 438 oldal
...after which time he got off. — Johnson. " Why, sir, no man will be a sailor, who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for, being in...landlord's daughter, a modest civil girl, very neatly drest, made it for us. She told us, she had been a year at Inverness, and learnt reading and writing,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 oldal
...life which he regarded with abhorrence. " No man," he said, " will be a sailor, who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a...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 oldal
...Johnson always expressed the utmost abhorrence. He said, "No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." And at another time, " A mau in a jxil has more room, better food, and commonly better company." The... | |
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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'. 
