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The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]. - Page 187
1751
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The Rambler. ...

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,...
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The Moral Miscellany: Or, a Collection of Select Pieces, in Prose and Verse ...

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...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Rambler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 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...
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The Rambler

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...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ...

Vicesimus Knox - 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...
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The Rambler

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...
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The Prose epitome; or, Extracts, elegant, instructive, and entertaining ...

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...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose ..., Volume 1

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...
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Select British Classics, Volume 6

1803 - 290 pages
...whirlpools, for many sunk unexpedtedly while they were courting the gale with full sails, and insulting those whom they had left behind. So numerous, indeed, were the dangers, and so thick the darkness, that no caution could confer security. Yet there were many who, by false intelligence,...
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The Rambler, by S. Johnson, Volume 2

1806 - 346 pages
...whirlpools, for many sunk unexpectedly while they were courting the gale with fall sails, and insulting those whom they had left behind. So numerous, indeed, were the dangers, and so thick the darkness, that no caution could confer security. Yet there were many, who, by false intelligence,...
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