...it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors. BERNARD MONTGOMERY No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. SAMUEL JOHNSON SOLDIERS Men...

...It would soon become the most vibrant, compelling competition in the sport of sailing. MODERN MAYHEM No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned .^^ A man in jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. — Samuel Johnson IN 1973,...

...a miracle in that year of miracles, 1759, upon whose Ides of March Dr. Johnson happen'd to remark, "No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." Some would call her a Frigate, though officially she is a couple of guns shy, causing others to add...

...lecture, sailed, hung out in the Keys, and . . . Ah, but I'm ahead of myself. 1 Florida and the Keys No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. —Samuel Johnson Beau is 6'6"...

...perhaps another nightmare version of being on board ship. (Cowper would have endorsed Johnson's remark: "No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.")"' Like many of the Olney Hymns (not to mention "The Castaway"), the bullfinch poem consists of a mixture...

...757, but his analysis was subjected to ill-conceived \ experiments for three '"••-. more decades. 'No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned . . . ' Dr Samuel Johnson, 1759 THE EAST INDIA COMPANY THE NABOB Warren Hastings, Governor General...

...difficulties of life at sea merely added to a commander's stress. As Samuel Johnson famously remarked, "No man will be a sailor, who has contrivance enough...ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned."18 And in some sense Johnson was right, especially regarding ordinary seamen. The men were...

...wall, but he has refused me. And I have clapped my hands till they are sore, at Dr King's speech.'2 His negro servant, Francis Barber, having left him,...ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.'3 And at another time, 'A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.'4...

...in his Life of Johnson (1791), which is, inter alia, a diary of Johnson's conversation: for example, 'No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.' 130.6 Peruvian After wresting its independence from Spanish rule in 1821, Peru retained contact with...

...supposed, but with his own consent, it appears from a letter to John Wilkes, Esq. from Dr. Smollett, that his master kindly interested himself in procuring...being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. "f And at another time, "A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. "J...