...Boswell. As to the sailor (said the great moralist), when you look down from the quarterdeck to the space below, you see the utmost extremity of human...Mankind reverence those who have got over fear, which is sogeneral a weakness. Scott. We find people fond of being sailors. Johnson. I cannot account for that,...

...dethrone the Czar,' a man would be ashamed to follow Socrates. Sir, the impression is universal. . . . The profession of soldiers and sailors has the dignity...have got over fear, which is so general a weakness." Courage has been often represented as rather a physical quality than a moral virtue. But the difference,...

...Boswell. As to the sailor (said the great moralist), when you look down from the quarterdeck to the space below, you see the utmost extremity of human misery, .such crowding, such filth, such stench 1 HotweU. Yet sailors are happy. Johnson. They are happy as brutes are happy with a piece of fresh...

...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 atench !' ' A ship is a prison, with the chance of being drowned, — it is worse, worse in every respect...