 ... every moment drawing nearer to safety or to destruction. At length, not fear, but labour, began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down, in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through...  Select British Classics - Page 621803Full view - About this book
 | Lindley Murray - Readers and speakers - 1828 - 256 pages
...resignation to his 'fate, when he beheld,, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper, v \ 12 He advanced towards the light, and finding that it proceeded...admission.-, The old man set before him such provisions as fcie had collected for himself, on \yhich Obidab fed with eagerness and gratitude. 13 When the repast... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...down, in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards the light, and, finding that it proceeded...door, and obtained admission. The old man set before iiim such provisions as he had collected for himself,-on which Obidah fed with eagerness and gratitude.... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...down, in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards the light, and, finding that it proceeded...hither : I have been now twenty years an inhabitant of this wilderness, in which I never saw a man before." Obidah then related the occurrences of his journey,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...He advanced towards the light, and finding that it proceeded from a cottage of a hermit, he catted humbly at the door, and obtained admission. — The...hermit, by what chance thou hast been brought hither; 1 have been now twenty years an inhabitant of the wilderness, in which I never saw a man before." Obidah... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1829 - 216 pages
...down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a'taper. 12. He advanced towards the light, and finding that it proceeded...the door, and obtained admission. The old man set befoi-e him such provisions as he had collected for himself, on which Obidah fed with eagerness and... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - English language - 1829 - 318 pages
...in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper.' 12. lie advanced towards the light ; and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called numbly at the door and obtained admission. The old man set before him such provisions as he had collected... | |
 | Joseph Guy - English language - 1829 - 170 pages
...knowing where he was going, or whether he was every moment drawing nearer to safety or to destruction. When the repast was over, tell me said the hermit, by what chance thou hast been brought here. Let the errors and follies, the dangers and escapes of this day, sink deep in thy heart. 10.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1830 - 244 pages
...down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through ihebramkles, the glimmer of a taper. 12. He advanced towards the light : and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he culled humbly at the door, and obtained admission. The old man set before him such provisions as lie... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 256 pages
...in resignation to his fate', when he beheld', through the brambles', the glimmer of a taper\ 12 He advanced towards the light* ; and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermif, he called humbly at the door', and obtained admlssion\ The old man set before him such provisions... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1831 - 294 pages
...down, in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards the light, and, finding that it proceeded..." by what chance thou hast been brought hither : I Lave been now twenty years an inhabitant of this wilderness, in which I never saw a man before." Obidaii... | |
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