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" ... than the care of the pilot, whom it was always in our power to choose among great numbers that offered their direction and assistance. "
Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments ... - Page 25
by Joseph Addison - 1794 - 1078 pages
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The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]., Volume 4

1751 - 224 pages
...of their veflels, and more by the folly, perverfenefs, or negligence of thofc who undertook to fteer them ; and that we were now on the main fea, abandoned...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...
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The Rambler. ...

Samuel Johnson - 1763 - 292 pages
...their veffels, and more by the folly, perverfenefe, or negligence, of thofe who unde"rtook to fteer them ; and that we were now on the main fea, abandoned...affiftance. I THEN looked round with anxious eagernefs ; and firft turning my eyes behind me, faw a dream flowing through flowery iflands, which every one that...
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The Moral Miscellany: Or, a Collection of Select Pieces, in Prose and Verse ...

1773 - 394 pages
...their vefl'els, and more by the folly, perverfenefs, or negligence of thofe who undertook to fteer them ; and that we were now on the main fea, abandoned...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 with...
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Harrison's British Classicks, Volume 1

1785 - 596 pages
...pcrverfenels, or negligence, of thofe who undertook to fteer them; and that we were now on the main fcaj abandoned to the winds and billows^ without any other means of fecurity thart the care of the pilot, whom it was alway* in our power to choofe arriong great numbers that offered...
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The Rambler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 460 pages
...their veflels, and more by the folly, perverfenefs, or negligence, of thofe who v undertook to fteer them; and that we were now on the main fea, abandoned...among great numbers that offered their direction and a/fiftance. I then looked round with anxious eagernefs; and firft turning my eyes behind me, faw a...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Rambler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 472 pages
...their veflels, and more by the folly, perverlenefs, or negligence, of thofc who undertook ro fleer them ; and that we were now on the main fea, abandoned...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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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ...

Vicesimus Knox - 1790 - 1058 pages
...their veflels, and more by the folly, perverfenefs, or negligence of thofe who undertook to ftoc-r them ; and that we were now on the main fea, abandoned...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...
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The Rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 pages
...perverfeneis, or negligence, of thole who undertook to ft<-er them ; anil that we were now on the main fca, abandoned to the winds and billows, without any other...means of fecurity than the care of the pilot, whom it wa» always in our power to clioolc among1 great numbers that offered their direc* tion nnu ailiftance....
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The Prose epitome; or, Extracts, elegant, instructive, and entertaining ...

1792 - 494 pages
...of their veflcls, and more by the folly, pcrverfenefs, or negligence of thole who undertook to fteer them ; and that we were 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...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose ..., Volume 1

1797 - 680 pages
...of their veifels, and more by the folly, perverfenefs, or negligence of thofe who undertook to fleer them ; and that we were now on the main fea, abandoned...care of the pilot, whom it was always in our power to chuic, among great numbers that offered their dircilion and affiilance. I then looked round with anxious...
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