 | Characters and characteristics - 1804 - 560 pages
...others fled with the utmost terror; 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 went so nigh the mountain, that the cinders, which grew thicker and hotter the nearer he approached,... | |
 | Pliny (the Younger.) - 1809 - 620 pages
...was now so near the mountain, that the cinders, which grew thicker and hotter the more he advanced, fell into the ships, together with pumice-stones,...of being a-ground by the sudden retreat of the sea, * The manuseript and printed copies vary extremely from each other as to the reading of this passage.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 540 pages
...ethers fled with the utmost terror ; 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 went so nigh the mountain, that the cinders, which grew thicker and hotter the nearer he approached,... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - Astronomy - 1815 - 568 pages
...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...rock ; they were likewise in danger not only of being a- ground by the sudden retreat of the sea, but also from the vast fragments which roiled down from... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 592 pages
...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...figure of that dreadful scene. He was now so nigh the mount, mi that the cinders, which grew thicker and hotter the nearer he approached, fell into the ships,... | |
 | Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - Natural history - 1818 - 590 pages
...point of danger, and with so much calmness and presence of mind, as to be able to make and dictate bis observations upon the motion and figure of that dreadful...rock ; they were likewise in danger not only of being a- ground by the sadden retreat of the sea, but also from the vast fragments which rolled clown from... | |
 | Edwin Atherstone - 1824 - 358 pages
...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...he approached, fell into the ships, together with pumice stones, and black pieces of burning rock. They were likewise in danger not only of being iground... | |
 | Charles Room - Herculaneum (Extinct city) - 1828 - 108 pages
...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...fell into the ships, together with pumice-stones and pieces of burning rock. They were likewise in danger, not only of being a-ground by the sudden retreat... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...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...likewise in danger not only of being a-ground by the suddfii retreat of the sea, but also from the vast fragments which rolled down from the mountain, and... | |
 | William Clarke (architect.) - Pompeii (Extinct city) - 1836 - 354 pages
...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...he approached, fell into the ships, together with pumice stones, and black pieces of burning rock : they were likewise in danger, not only of being aground... | |
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When hastening to the place 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... 
