 | James Hardie - Biography - 1802 - 486 pages
...with the utmost terror and precipitation ; yet he was clothed with that philosophic composure, that calmness and presence of mind, as to be able to make and dictate his observations on the motion, figure, and effervescence of that dreadful eruption. He sailed so near... | |
 | Characters and characteristics - 1804 - 560 pages
...extremely thick upon that beautiful coast. He steered directly to the point of danger, whence others fled with the utmost terror; and with so much calmness...presence of mind, as to be able to make and dictate his observations upon the motion and figure of that dreadful scene. He went so nigh the mountain, that... | |
 | Pliny (the Younger.) - Lawyers - 1807 - 424 pages
...from whence others fled with the utmost terror, he steered his direct course to the point of danger, and with so much calmness and presence of mind, as to be able to make and dictate his observations upon the appearance and progress of that dreadful scene. He was now so near the mountain,... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 pages
...from whence others fled with the utmost terror, be steered his direct course to the point of danger, and with so much calmness and presence of mind, as...able to make and dictate bis observations upon the appearance and progress of that dreadful scene. He was now so near the mountain, that the cinders,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 540 pages
...situated upon that beautiful coast. He steered directly to the point of danger, whence ethers fled with the utmost terror ; and with so much calmness...presence of mind, as to be able to make and dictate his observations upon the motion and figure of that dreadful scene. He went so nigh the mountain, that... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 592 pages
...from which others fled with the utmost terror, lie steered his direct course to the point of danger, and with so much calmness and presence of mind, as to be able to make and dictate his observations upon the motion and figure of that dreadful scene. He was now so nigh the mount, mi... | |
 | Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - Natural history - 1818 - 590 pages
...from which others fled with the utmost terror, he steered bis direct course to the point of danger, and with so much calmness and presence of mind, as...upon the motion and figure of that dreadful scene. He was now so nigh the mountain that the cinders, which grew thicker and hotter the nearer he approached,... | |
 | Edwin Atherstone - 1824 - 358 pages
...from whence others fled with the utmost terror, he steered his direct course to the point of danger, and with so much calmness and presence of mind, as to be able to make and dictate his observations upon the motion and figure of that dreadful scene. He was now so nigh the mountain,... | |
 | Picture gallery - 1824 - 234 pages
...from which others fled with the utmost terror, he steered his direct course to the point of. danger; and with so much calmness and presence of mind, as to be able to make and dictate his observations upon the appearance and progress of that dreadful scene. He was now so near the mountain,... | |
 | Charles Room - Herculaneum (Extinct city) - 1828 - 108 pages
...from whence others fled with the utmost terror, he steered his direct course to the point of danger ; and with so much calmness and presence of mind, as to be able to make and dictate his observations upon the motion and figure of that dreadful scene. He was now so nigh the mountain... | |
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... presence of mind, as to be able to make and dictate his observations upon the motion and figure of that dreadful scene. 
