 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 722 pages
...fraught with danger surrounding it should excite mariners to wish for a lighthouse, is not wonderful; bnt the danger attending the erection leads us to wonder that any one could be found hardy enongli to undertake it. Such a man was first found in the person of Mr. H. Winstanley, who, in the... | |
 | John Walker - Gentleman's magazine (London, England) - 1811 - 646 pages
...rock, or even landing upon it, when, figuratively speaking, you might go to sea in a walnut-shell. That circumstances fraught with danger surrounding...Such a man was first found in the person of Mr. H. Win-. Stanley, who, in 1696, was furnished by the Trinity-house with the necessary powers. In 1700... | |
 | 1811 - 644 pages
...sea in a walnut-shell. That circumstances fraught with danger surrounding it should lead mariners tq wish for a light-house, is not wonderful ; but the...found in the person of Mr. H. WinStanley, who, in 1696, was furnished by the Trinity-house with the necessary powers. In 1700 it was finished ; and in... | |
 | John Walker - Gentleman's magazine (London, England) - 1811 - 638 pages
...rock, or even landing upon it, when, figuratively speaking, you might go to sea in a walnut-shell. That circumstances fraught with danger surrounding...wish for a light-house, is not wonderful ; but the clanger attending the erection leads us to wonder that any one rould be found hardy enough to undertake... | |
 | John Smeaton - Civil engineering - 1812 - 532 pages
...fliould lead mariners to wifh fora lighthoufe, is not wonderful; but the danger attending the ercdion leads us to wonder, that any one could be found hardy enough, to undertake it. Such a man-wasfirft found in the perfon of Mr. H. WINSTANLEY, who, in the year 1696, was furni flied by the... | |
 | John Walker - 1814 - 638 pages
...rock, or even landing upon it, when, figuratively speaking, you might go to sea in a walnut-shell. That circumstances fraught with danger surrounding...danger attending the erection leads us to wonder that anyone could be found hardy enough to undertake it Such a man was first found in the person of Mr.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 512 pages
...rock, or even landing upon it, when, figuratively speaking, you might go to sea in a walnut-shell. That circumstances fraught with; danger surrounding...found in the person of Mr. H. Winstanley, who, in 1696, was furnished by the Trinity-house with the necessary powers. In 1700 it was finished; but in,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 522 pages
...rock, or even landing upon it, when, figuratively speaking, you might go to sea in a walnut-shell. That circumstances fraught with danger surrounding...found in the person of Mr. H. Winstanley, who, in 1696, was furnished by the Trinity-house with the necessary powers. In 1700 it was finished; but in... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 516 pages
...rock, or even landing upon it, when, figuratively speaking, you might go to sea in a walnut-shell. That circumstances fraught with danger surrounding...it. Such a man was first found in the person of Mr. II. Winstanley, who, in 1696, was furnished by the Trinity-house with the necessary powers. In 1700... | |
 | Richard Vickerman Taylor - 1865 - 552 pages
...rock, or even landing upon it, when, figuratively speaking, you might go to sea in a walnut-shell. That circumstances fraught with danger surrounding...found in the person of Mr. H. WinStanley, who, in 1 696, was furnished by the Trinity House with the necessary powers. In 1700 it was finished; but in... | |
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... meeting the slope of the rocks, the sea beats upon them in a frightful manner, so as not only to obstruct any work being done on the rock, or even landing upon it, when, figuratively speaking, you might go to sea in a walnut-shell. That circumstances... 