 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1759 - 176 pages
...fecurity. A flight of northern favages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irrefiftible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happinefs, might be violated by the fudden defcent of fome of the naked nations that fwarm on the coaft... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...fecurity. A flight of northern favages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irrefiftible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happinefs, might be violated by the fudden defcent of fome of the naked nations that /warm on the coaft... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...fecurity. A flight of northern favages might hover in the wind, and light at once with jrrefiftible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happinefs, might be violated by the fudden defcent of fome of the naked nations that fwarm on the coaft... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 546 pages
...fecurity. A flight of northern favages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irrefiftible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happinefs, might be violated by the fudden defcent of fome of the naked nations that iwarm on the coaft... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1790 - 318 pages
...fecurity. A flight of northern favages might hover in the wind, and light at once once with irrefiftible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happinefs, might be violated by the fudden defcent of fome of the naked nations that fwarm on the coaft... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...fecurity. A flight of northern favages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irrefiftible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happineis, might be violated by the fudden defcent of foine of the naked nations that fwarm on the... | |
 | George Adams - Science - 1794 - 540 pages
...fecurity ; a flight of northern favages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irrefiftible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that was rolling under them.' " The prince promifed fecrecy, and waited for the performance, not wholly hopelefs of fuccefs; he vilitedthe... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 462 pages
...fecurity. A flight of northern favages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irrefiftible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happinefs, might be violated by the fudden defcent of fome of the naked nations that fwarm on the coaft... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...teach them to fly. But what would be the security of the good, if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds, neither walls, mountains, nor seas, could afford ' security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the wind,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Historical fiction - 1809 - 210 pages
...teach them to fly. But what would be the security of the good, if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds, neither walls, mountains, nor seas, could afford security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the wind, and... | |
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I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good, if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? • Against an army sailing through the clouds, neither walls, nor mountains, nor seas could afford... 
