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 - Σελίδα 252των Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 323 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
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...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... | |
| 1866 - 654 σελίδες
...sea life in the royal navy : — "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 in every respect — worse air,... | |
| National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - 1866 - 622 σελίδες
...sea life in the royal navy : — " 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, •There is reason to fear a recent (jsreption in the foundering of the " Asia," during a typhoon in... | |
| National association for the promotion of social science - 1866 - 622 σελίδες
...sea life in the royal navy : — " 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, * There ia reason to fear a recent exception in the foundering of the '• Asia," during a typhoon... | |
| National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - 1866 - 622 σελίδες
...sea life in the royal navy : — " Aa 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, auch filth, •There is reason to fear a recent exception in the foundering of the "Asia," during a... | |
| Erastus Edgerton Marcy - 1868 - 966 σελίδες
...Johnson thus described a sealife : "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 —... | |
| Erastus Edgerton Marcy, Franklin W. Hunt - 1868 - 968 σελίδες
...Johnson thus described a sealife: "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 - 1873 - 620 σελίδες
...you ке the utmost extremity of human misery : •ach crowding, such filth, such stench 1 ' BosWKLL: 'Yet sailors are happy.' JOHNSON: 'They are happy...have got over fear, which is so general a weakness. ' SCOTT : ' But is not courage mechanical, and to be acquired?' JOBJSOX : ' Why yes, sir, in a collective... | |
| James Boswell - 1874 - 584 σελίδες
...from the quarter-deck to the space below, you see the utmost extremity of human misery: such crouding, such filth, such stench !" BOSWELL. " Yet sailors...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... | |
| 1877 - 826 σελίδες
...Boswell. As to the sailor (said the great moralist), 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 ! Boswtll. Yet sailors are happy. Johnson. They are happy as brutes are happy with a piece of fresh... | |
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