| 1774 - 846 pages
...(hew (if I may be allowed the expreflion) equal intrepidity ; either owing to fome being lefs prefied by hunger, or to their being by nature lefs carnivorous...firfl attempt of the failors to drive them away. A repatition, however, of thefe. fei ocious attacks, threw the poor men into great terror and anxiety,... | |
| History - 1778 - 630 pages
...fhew (if 1 may be allowed the expreffion) equal intrepidity ; either owing to fome being lefs prefled by hunger, or to their being by nature lefs carnivorous...hut, immediately betook themfelves to flight on the firft attempt of the failors to drive them away. A repetition, however, of thefe ferocious attacks,... | |
| History - 1801 - 554 pages
...ihew (if I may be allowed the cxpreffion) equal intrepidity; either owing to fome being lefs prefled by hunger, or to their being by nature lefs carnivorous...hut, immediately betook themfelves to flight on the firft attempt of the failors to drive them away. A repetition, however, of thefe ferocious attacks,... | |
| Thomas Day - 1801 - 256 pages
...fhew (if I may be allowed the expreffion) equal intrepidity, either owing to fome being lefs prefled by hunger, or to their being by nature lefs carnivorous...hut immediately betook themfelves to flight, on the firft attempt of the failors to drive them away. A repetition of thefe ferocious attacks, threw the... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1778 - 578 pages
...mew (if I may be allowed the expreffion) equal intrepidity ; either owing to fome being leis prefled by hunger, or to their being by nature lefs carnivorous...hut, immediately betook themfelves to flight on the firft attempt of the failors to drive them away. A repetition, however, of thefe ferocious attacks,... | |
| English literature - 1775 - 780 pages
...air, and afterwards nivorous than the others : for fome of of hanging it up in the upper part ofthe them which entered the hut, immediately betook themfelves to flight on the firft attempt of the failors to drive them awty. A repetition, however, of thefc ferocious attacks,... | |
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