 They are happy as brutes are happy, with a piece of fresh meat, — with the grossest sensuality. But, sir, the profession of soldiers and sailors has the dignity of danger. Mankind reverence those who have got over fear, which is so general a weakness.  Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson - Страница 252по Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 323 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 576 страници
...is universal ; yet it U strange. As to the sailor, when you look down from the quarter-deck to the space below, you see the utmost extremity of human misery : such crowding, euch filth, such stench !" BOSWELL : " Yet sailors are happy." JOHNSON ; " They are hippy as brutes... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 592 страници
...is universal ; yet it is strange. As to the sailor, when you look down from the quarter-deck to the space below, you see the utmost extremity of human...have got over fear, which is so general a weakness." SCOTT. " But is not courage mechanical, and to be acquired ?" JOHNSON. " Why yes, sir, in a collective... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 584 страници
...is universal; yet it is strange. As to the sailor, when you look down from the quarter-deck to the space below, you see the utmost extremity of human...are happy as brutes are happy, with a piece of fresh meat—with the grossest sensuality. But, sir, the profession of soldiers and sailors has the dignity... | |
 | 1831 - 336 страници
...sea-life in such terms as these : — " As to the sailor, when you look down from the quarter deck to the space below, 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 — worse in every respect... | |
 | 1831 - 336 страници
...sea-life in such terms as these :—" As to the sailor, when you look down from the quarter deck to the space below, 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—worse in every respect—worse... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 590 страници
...is universal; yet it is strange. As to the sailor, when yon. look down from the quarter-deck to the space below, you see the utmost extremity of human..."Yet sailors are happy." JOHNSON. "They are happy ag brutes are happy, with a piece of fresh meat — with the grossest sensuality. But, sir, the profession... | |
 | Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners, Edwin Chadwick - 1842 - 556 страници
...1778, thus describes a sea life: — "As to the sailor, when you look down from the quarter-deck to the space below, 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, worse in every respect... | |
 | James Boswell - 1843 - 588 страници
...is universal; yet it ia strange. As to the sailor, when you look down from the quarter-deck to the space below, you see the. utmost extremity of human...have got over fear, which is so general a weakness." SCOTT " But is not courage mechanical, and to be acquired' JOHNSON. " Why yes, sir, in a collective... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 442 страници
...is universal ; yet it is strange. As to the sailor, when you look down from the quarter-deck to the space below, you see the utmost extremity of human misery ; such crowding, such filth, such stench I " BOSWELL. " Yet sailors are happy." JOHNSON. " They are happy as brutes are happy, with a piece... | |
 | 1850 - 342 страници
...Johnson said of a life at sea, ' As to the sailor, when yon look down from the quarter-deck to the space below, 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 — worse in every respect... | |
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