 | 1768 - 750 pages
...fubfift U: ), together with a boifterous (ta, prefented us with the molt dreary ðãîÃðåà ; on the other, the land did not wear a much more favourable...of culture, we could hope to receive little other Û-nefit from it than the preservation it afforded us from the fea. It mi. 11 be confeflêd this was... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1797 - 668 pages
...fupport and fubfift us) together with a boifterous fea, prefented us with the moft dreary profpect; on the other, the land did not wear a much more favourable...than the prefervation it afforded us from the fea. It mult he confefled, this was a great and merciful deliverance from immediate deftruction; but then we... | |
 | 1800 - 614 pages
...fupport and fubfift us) together with a boifterous fea, prefented us with the moil dreary profpeft ; on the other, the land did not wear a much more favourable appearance: defolate and barren, without fign of cultúrele could hope to receive little other benefit from it, than the prefervation it afforded us... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1796 - 340 pages
...fupport and fubfill us) together with a J^pifterous fea, prefented us with the moft dreary profpect; on the other, the land did not wear a much more favourable appearance : defolate and Barren, without figu of culture, we could hope to receive little other benefit from it than the prefervation it afforded... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1802 - 374 pages
...support and subsist us) together with a boisterous sea, presented us with the most dreary prospect ; on. the other, the land did not wear a much more favourable appearance : desolate and barren, without sign of culture, we could hope to receive little other benefit from... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1816 - 562 pages
...support and subsist us) together with a boisterous sea, presented us with the most dreary prospect; on the other, the land did not wear a much more favourable appearance : desolate and barren, without sign of culture, we could hops to receive little other benefit from... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1824 - 548 pages
...support and subsist us) together with a boisterous sea, presented us with the most dreary prospect; on the other, the land did not wear a much -more favourable appearance: desolate and barren, without sign of culture, we could hope to receive little other benefit from it... | |
 | General history - 1824 - 554 pages
...support and subsist us) together with a boisterous sea, presented us with the most dreary prospect; on the other, the land did not wear a much more favourable appearance: desolate and barren, without sign of culture, we could hope to receive lillle other benefit from it... | |
 | George Clinton (biographer of Byron.) - 1825 - 314 pages
...the other, the land did not wear a much more favorable appearance ; desolate and barren, without sign of culture, we could hope to receive little other benefit from it than the preservation it afforded us from the sea. Exerting ourselves, however, though faint, benumbed, and... | |
 | 1825 - 454 pages
...other, the land did not wear a much more favorable appearance : desolate and barren, without signs of culture, we could hope to receive little other benefit from it than the preservation it afforded us from the sea. Exerting ourselves, however, though faint, benumbed, and... | |
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Which ever way we looked, a scene of horror presented itself: on one side, the wreck (in which was all that we had in the world to support and subsist us), together with a boisterous sea... 
