 ... 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 than the preservation it afforded us from the sea. We had wet, cold, and hunger,...  The Choice: Or, Lines on the Beatitudes - Page 70by James Bush - 1841 - 102 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English literature - 1768 - 514 pages
...the other, the land did not wear a much more favourable appearance: defolate and barren, without fign of culture, we could hope to receive little other benefit from it than the prefervation it afforded us from the fea. It muft be confcfled this was a great and merciful deliverance... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Discoveries in geography - 1797 - 668 pages
...the other, the land did not wear a much more favourable appearance: defolate and barren, without fign of culture, we could hope to receive little other benefit from it than the prefervation it afforded us from the fea. It mult he confefled, this was a great and merciful deliverance... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1816 - 562 pages
...wear a much more favourable appearance : desolate and barren, without sign of culture, we could hops to receive little other benefit from it than the preservation...merciful deliverance from immediate destruction; but then w- had wet, cold, and hunger to struggle with, and no visible remedy against any of those evils. Exerting... | |
 | Robert Kerr - Voyages and travels - 1824 - 548 pages
...Indians appear in Canoes off the Coast. — Description of them.— ^Discontents amongst our People. IT is natural to think, that to men thus upon the...afforded us from the sea. It must be confessed this was a .rent and merciful deliverance from immediate destruction; but then we had wet, cold, and hunger to... | |
 | George Clinton (biographer of Byron.) - 1825 - 314 pages
...presented us wilh the most dreary prospect ; on the other, the land did not wear a much more favorable appearance ; desolate and barren, without sign of...than the preservation it afforded us from the sea. Exerting ourselves, however, though faint, benumbed, and almost helpless, to find some wretched covert... | |
 | Poets, English - 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...than the preservation it afforded us from the sea. Exerting ourselves, however, though faint, benumbed, and almost helpless, to find some wretched covert... | |
 | George Clinton - Poets, English - 1828 - 888 pages
...presented us with the mowt dreary prospect ; on the other, the land did not wear a much more favorable appearance ; desolate and barren, without sign of...than the preservation it afforded us from the sea. Exerting ourselves, however, though faint, benumbed, and almost belpleas, to find some wretched covert... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1845 - 846 pages
...which was all that we had in the world to support and subsist us), together with a boisterous sea ; on the other, the land did not wear a much more favourable...than the preservation it afforded us from the sea. We had wet, cold, and hunger, to struggle with, and no visible remedy against any of those evils."... | |
 | Sea stories - 1858 - 288 pages
...subsist us), together with a boisterous sea ; on the other, the land did not wear a much more favorable appearance; desolate and barren, without sign of culture,...than the preservation it afforded us from the sea. We had wet, cold, and hunger, to struggle with, and no visible remedy against any of those evils."... | |
 | William Chambers - 1860 - 202 pages
...which was all that we had in the world to support and subsist us), together with a boisterous sea ; on the other, the land did not wear a much more favourable...than the preservation it afforded us from the sea. We had wet, cold, and hunger, to struggle with, and no visible remedy against any of those evils."... | |
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