 | Samuel Johnson - 1763 - 292 pages
...the fight of a wreck made any man change his courfe : if he turned afide for a moment, he foon forgot the rudder, and left himfelf again to the difpofal...indifference, or from wearinefs of their prefent condition j for not one of thofe who thus rufhed upon deftruction, failed, when he was finking, to call loudly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1772 - 288 pages
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 | English literature - 1773 - 394 pages
...of a wreck made any man change his couxfe ; if he turned afide for a moment, he foon forgot forgot the rudder, and left himfelf again to the difpofal...condition; for not. one of thofe, who thus rufhed upon deftruftion, failed when he was finking, to call loudly upon his aflbciates for that help which could... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English essays - 1784 - 372 pages
...the fight of a wreck made any man change his courfe : if he turned alide for a moment, he foon forgot the rudder, and left himfelf again to the difpofal...thus rufhed upon deftruction, failed, when he was fmking, to call loudly upon his .afibciates for that help which could not now be given him ; and many... | |
 | 1785 - 596 pages
...the fight of a wreck made .my man change his courfe; if he turned alTde for a moment, he loon forgot the rudder, and left himfelf again to the difpofal...proceed from indifference, or from wearinefs of their jvrtfent condition; for not one of thole who thus rufhcd upon dcliru£tion failed, when he was finking,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 472 pages
...the fight of a wreck made any man change his courfe: if he turned afide for a moment, he foon forgot the rudder, and left himfelf again to the difpofal...failed, when he was finking, to call loudly upon his aflbciates for that help which could not now be given him ; and many fpent their laft moments in cautioning... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 460 pages
...the fight of a wreck made any man change his courfe: if he turned afide for a moment, he foon forgot the rudder, and left himfelf again to the difpofal...failed, when he was finking, to call loudly upon his aflbciates for that help which could not now be given him ; and many fpent their laft moments in cautioning... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...fight of a wreck made any man change his courfe; if he 1 turned afide for a moment, he foon forgot the rudder, and left himfelf again to the difpofal...proceed from indifference, or from wearinefs of their pr~fcnt condition ; for not one of thofe who thus ruihed upon deftruiHon failed, when he was (mking,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 pages
...man change his courfc 5 if he turned afide for a moment, he foon forgot tUe rudder, ami left himielf again to the difpofal of chance. This negligence did not proceed from indifference, or from wearineis of their prefent condition) for not one of thofe who thui rufhed upon deftruaion failed,... | |
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... for that help which could not now be given him ; and many spent their last moments in cautioning others against the folly by which they were intercepted in the midst of their course. 
