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" ... ocean of life; that we had already passed the straits of infancy, in which multitudes had perished, some by the weakness and fragility of their vessels, and more by the folly, perverseness, or negligence of those who undertook to steer them; and that... "
Moral and Religious Souvenir - Page 125
1828 - 288 pages
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The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]., Volume 4

1751 - 224 pages
...were now on the main fea, abandoned to the winds and billows, without any other means of fecqrity, than the care of the pilot, whom it was always in our power to chufe among great numbers that offered their direction and afliftuicc. I then looked round with anxious...
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The Rambler. ...

Samuel Johnson - 1763 - 292 pages
...we were now on the main fea, abandoned to the winds and billows, without any other means of fecurity than the care of the pilot, whom it was always in our power to choofe among great numbers that offered their direction and affiftance. I THEN looked round with anxious...
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The Moral Miscellany: Or, a Collection of Select Pieces, in Prose and Verse ...

1773 - 394 pages
...were now on the main fea, abandoned to the winds and billows, without any other means of fecurity, than the care of the pilot, whom it was always in our power to choofe • i among among great numbers that offered their direftion and affillance. I then looked round...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Rambler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 472 pages
...we were now on the main fea, abandoned to the winds and billows, without any other means of fecurity than the care of the pilot, whom it was always in our power to choofc among great numbers that offered their direction and a/fiftance. I then looked round with anxious...
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The Rambler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 460 pages
...we were now on the main fea, abandoned to the winds and billows, without any other means of fecurity than the care of the pilot, whom it was always in our power to choofe among great numbers that offered their direction and a/fiftance. I then looked round with anxious...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ...

Vicesimus Knox - 1790 - 1058 pages
...we were now on the main fea, abandoned to the winds and billows, without any other means of fecuruy than the care of the pilot, whom it was always in our power to chufe, among great numbers that offered their dir.-ftion and affiltancsi I then looked round with anxious...
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The Prose epitome; or, Extracts, elegant, instructive, and entertaining ...

1792 - 494 pages
...now on the main fea, abandoned to the winds and • billows, without any other mean", of fccurity . than the care of the pilot, whom it was always in our power to chufe, among great numbers that ottered their direction and alfiftance. I then looked round with anxious...
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Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical ..., Volume 3

Mr. Addison - 1794 - 326 pages
...we were now on the main fea, abandoned to the winds and billows, without any other means of fecurity than the care of the pilot, whom it was always in our power to choofe among great numbers that offered their direction and affiftance. I then looked round with anxious...
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The Beauties of English Writers: In Prose and Verse

1799 - 334 pages
...we were now on the main fea, abandoned to the winds and billows, without any other means of fecurity than the care of the pilot, whom it was always in our power to choofe among great numbers that offered their direŁtion and affiftance. I then looked round with anxious...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 458 pages
...we were now on the main fea, abandoned to the winds and billows, without any other means of fecurity than the care of the pilot, whom it was always in our power to choofe among great numbers that oflered their direction and afliflance. I then looked round with anxious...
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