| James Boswell - 1901 - 502 pàgines
...' a man would be ashamed to follow Socrates. Sir, the impression is universal : yet it is strange. As to the sailor, when you look down from the quarterdeck to the space below, yon see the utmost extremity of human misery : such crowding, such filth, such stench ! " BOSWELL.... | |
| Gustav Spiller - 1921 - 464 pàgines
...tremendous were the ravages of scurvy, that, in the year 1726, Admiral Hosier sailed with seven ships of the line to the West Indies, and buried his ships'...and died himself in consequence of a broken heart." ([44.].) § 59. The plain man has been for ages occupied in wealth production, and might be supposed... | |
| Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 pàgines
...Cswr'; 9 man would be ashamed to follow Socrates. Sir, the impression is i universal: yet it is strange. As to the sailor, when you look down from the quarter-deck to the space below, yon see the utmost extremity of human misery: such crowding, such filth, such stench!" BOSWELL: "Yet... | |
| 1887 - 560 pàgines
...frame is susceptible. Mr. Johnson, in the year of 1778, described a sea life in the following terms : " As to the sailor when you look down from the quarter-deck...space below, you see the utmost extremity of human suffering, such crowding, such filth, such stench. A ship is a prison with a chance of being drowned,... | |
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