...paints them vividly in Roderick Random. Johnson always had a horror of the life at sea. ' No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself...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' (Life 1. 348)....

...profitable. Baretti had no love for the sea. He doubtless thought with Johnson that "no man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself...ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned " ; and on another occasion he declared that " a man in a jail has more room, better food,...

...surprises. Q There is a delightful touch of surprise in his comparison of a ship to a jail. ' No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself...ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.' And again, ' A man in jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.' The...

...drowned.' And at another time, 'A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.' The letter was as follows: — 'Chelsea, March 16,...in behalf of that great CHAM of literature, Samuel Johnson. His black servant, whose name is Francis Barber, has been pressed on board the Stag Frigate,...

...Johnson could never understand why any man should go to sea. " No man will be a sailor," he said once, " who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail...ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." Another time he said, " A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company."...

...for their good sense and sound judgment, but for their freshness and unexpectedness. " No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself...ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned ... a man in jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company." " Men know that...

...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...ship is 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...

...logion which compares a ship to a prison. The Journal for August 3 1 , gives this : " No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself...ship" is being in a jail, with the chance of being dfpwned." And under September 23 the same document gives " The man in a jail has more room, better...

...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...ship is 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...

...habitable places death, pox and drunkenness. Ned Ward (1667-1731) English humorous writer No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself...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...