 | National association for the promotion of social science - 1866
...deathrate prevalent in it. Dr. Johnson, in 1778, thus described a sea life in the royal navy : — " As to the sailor, when you look down from the quarter-deck...you see the utmost extremity of human misery ; such crowding, such filth, * There ia reason to fear a recent exception in the foundering of the '• Asia,"... | |
 | 1866
...death-rate prevalent in it. Dr. Johnson, in 1778, thus described a sea life in the royal navy : — "As to the sailor, when you look down from the quarter-deck...you see the utmost extremity of human misery ; such crowding, such filth, such stench ! A ship is a prison, with the chance of being drowned; it is worse... | |
 | National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - 1866
...deathrate prevalent in it. Dr. Johnson, in 1778, thus described a sea life in the royal navy : — " As to the sailor, when you look down from the quarter-deck...you see the utmost extremity of human misery ; such crowding, such filth, •There is reason to fear a recent exception in the foundering of the " Affla,"... | |
 | National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - 1866
...deathrate prevalent in it. Dr. Johnson, in 1778, thus described a sea life in the royal navy : — " Aa to the sailor, when you look down from the quarter-deck...you see the utmost extremity of human misery ; such crowding, auch filth, •There is reason to fear a recent exception in the foundering of the "Asia,"... | |
 | Erastus Edgerton Marcy, Franklin W. Hunt - 1868
...known more than ten thousand men perish from scurvy. In 1778, Dr. Johnson thus described a sealife: "As to the sailor, when you look down from the quarter-deck...see the utmost extremity of human misery, — such crowding, such filth, such stench ! " "A ship is a prison with the chance of being drowned ; it is... | |
 | Erastus Edgerton Marcy - 1868
...known more than ten thousand men perish from scurvy. In 1778, Dr. Johnson thus described a sealife : "As to the sailor, when you look down from the quarter-deck...see the utmost extremity of human misery, — such crowding, such filth, such stench ! " "A ship is a prison with the chance of being drowned ; it is... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 560 страници
...philosophy ; " and Charles, laying his hand on his sword, to say, " Follow me, and dethrone the Czar;" aman would be ashamed to follow Socrates. Sir, the impression...you see the utmost extremity of human misery : such crowding, such filth, such stench ! ' BOBWELL : 'Yet sailors are happy.' JOHNSON: 'They are happy as... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 576 страници
...in philosophy ; " and Charles, laying his hand oa his sword, to say, " Follow me, and dethrone ta« Czar ; " a man would be ashamed to follow Socrates. Sir, the impression is universal : yet ' it • strange. As to the sailor, when you look down from the quarter-deck to the space below, you ке... | |
 | 1877
...conversations so tenaciously remembered by the admiring Boswell. As to the sailor (said the great moralist), when you look down from the quarter-deck to the space...you see the utmost extremity of human misery, such crowding, such filth, such stench ! Boswtll. Yet sailors are happy. Johnson. They are happy as brutes... | |
 | 1882
...horrible crowding anil neglect of ventilation that used to prevail. We read that JOHNSON once observed, "As to the sailor, when you look down from the quarter-deck...you see the utmost extremity of human misery ; such crowding, such filth, such stench !" BOSWKLL — "Yet sailors are happy." JOHNSON — "They are happy... | |
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.Follow me, and hear a lecture in philosophy ;' and Charles, laying his hand on his sword, to say, ' Follow me, and dethrone the czar;' a man would be ashamed to follow Socrates. 
