 | Samuel Johnson - 1763 - 292 pages
...waters violently agitated, and covered with fo thick a mift, that the moft perfpicacious eye could could fee but a little way. It appeared to be full...fo thick the darknefs, that no caution could confer fccurity. Yet there were many, who, by falfe intelligence, betrayed their followers into whirlpools,... | |
 | English literature - 1773 - 394 pages
...could fee but a little way. It appeared to be full of rocks and whirlpools, for many funk unexpeftedly while they were courting the gale with full fails,...betrayed their followers into whirlpools, or by violence pumed thofe whom they found in their way, agakft the rocks. The current was invariable and infurmountable... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 472 pages
...waters violently agitated, and covered with fo thick a rnift, that the mof t perfpicacious eye could Ice but a little way. It appeared to be full of rocks...could confer fecurity. Yet there •were many, who, by faife intelligence, betrayed their followers into whirlpools, or by violence pufhed thofe whom they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 460 pages
...whirlpools, for many funk unexpectedly while they were courting the gale with full fails, and infulring thofe whom they had left behind. So numerous, indeed,...dangers, and fo .thick the darknefs, that no caution couid confer fecurity. Yet there were many, who, by falfe intelligence,'betrayed their followers into... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...whirlpools, for many funk unexpectedly while they were courting the gale with full fails, and infulting thoic whom they had left behind. So numerous, indeed, were...fecurity. Yet there were many, who, by falfe intelligence, be. trayed their followers into whirlpools, or by violence puihed thofe whom they found in their way... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 pages
...whirlpools, for many funk unexpectedly while they were courting . the gale with full fails, and infultiug thofe whom they had left behind. So numerous, indeed,...could confer fecurity. Yet there were many who, by falie intelligence, betrayed their followers into whirlpools, or by violence pufhed thofe whom they... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1792 - 494 pages
...whirlpools, for many funk unexpectedly while they were courting the gale with full fails, and inlulring thofc whom they had left behind. So numerous, indeed, were...could confer fecurity. Yet there were many, who, by falfc intelligence, betrayed their' followers int« whirlpools, or by violence pufhed thofc whom they... | |
 | English literature - 1797 - 680 pages
...and infulting thofe whom they had left be. hind. So numerous, indeed, were the dangers, and fo chick the darknefs, that no caution could confer fecurity....betrayed their followers into whirlpools, or by violence puflied thofe whom they found in their way againft the rocks. The current was invariable and infurmountable... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 340 pages
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... but a little way. It appeared to be full of rocks and whirlpools, for many sunk unexpectedly while they were courting the gale with full sails, and insulting those whom they had left behind. 
