 | 1814 - 774 pages
...surges, and break upon the beach. Every ninth wave is observed to be generally more tremendous than the rest, and threatens to overwhelm the settlement....season, is truly awful. During the tedious monsoon 1 passed at .Anjengo, I often stood upon the trembling sand-bank, to contemplate the solemn scene,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1815 - 558 pages
...the loudest cannon. They seem as if they would overwhelm the settlement.' ' Often,' says he, ' have I stood upon the trembling sand-bank to contemplate the solemn scene., and derive a comfort from that sublime and Omnipotent decree, " hitherto shalt thon come and no farther — and... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 pages
...break upon the beach ; every ninth wave is observed to be generally more tremendous than the r«st, and threatens to overwhelm the settlement. The noise...from that sublime and omnipotent decree. ' Hitherto shall thou come, but no further ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed!'" WHIRLWINDS AND WATERSPOUTS.... | |
 | 1831 - 418 pages
...surges, and break upon the beach ; every ninth wave is observed to be generally more tremendous than the rest, and threatens to overwhelm the settlement....truly awful. During the tedious monsoon I passed at Ajengo, I often stood upon the trembling sand bank, to contemplate the solemn scene, and derive comfort... | |
 | 1831 - 418 pages
...observed to be generally more tremendous than the rest, and threatens to overwhelm the settlement.—The noise of these billows equals that of the loudest...truly awful. During the tedious monsoon I passed at Ajengo, I often stood upon the trembling sand bank, to contemplate the solemn scene, and derive comfort... | |
 | 1831 - 412 pages
...truly awful. During the tedious monsoon I passed at Ajengo, I often stood upon the trembling sand bank, to contemplate the solemn scene, and derive comfort...from that sublime and omnipotent decree. ' Hitherto shali thou come but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. LIVES OF CELEBRATED CHILDREN.—NO.... | |
 | James Forbes - 1834 - 586 pages
...surges, and break upon the beach : every ninth wave is observed to be generally more tremendous than the rest, and threatens to overwhelm the settlement....passed at Anjengo, I often stood upon the trembling sand-hank, to contemplate the solemn scene, and derive a comfort from that sublime and omnipotent decree,... | |
 | 1815 - 560 pages
...the loudest cannon. They seem as if they would overwhelm the settlement.' ' Often,' says he, ' have I stood upon the trembling sand-bank to contemplate the solemn scene, and derive a comfort from that sublime and Omnipotent decree, " hitherto snalt thou come and no farther — and... | |
 | Natural phenomena - 1846 - 142 pages
...surges, and break upon the beach : every ninth wave is observed to be generally more tremendous than the rest, and threatens to overwhelm the settlement....the thunder and lightning so frequent in the rainy * Elphinstone's Caubul. season, is truly awful. During the tedious Monsoon I passed at Anjengo, I often... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1849 - 396 pages
...surges, and break upon the beach ; every ninth wave is observed to be generally more tremendous than the rest, and threatens to overwhelm the settlement....sandbank to contemplate the solemn scene, and derive a comfort from that sublime and omnipotent decree, ' Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and... | |
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... a series of floating mountains heaving under hoary summits, until they approach the shore; when their stupendous accumulations flow in successive surges, and break upon the beach; every ninth wave is observed to be generally more tremendous than the... 
