 | Characters and characteristics - 1804 - 560 pages
...life; he pursued it with so much eagerness, that he catched hold of it at the brink of a precipice, of which he was not aware, the bushes having hid it...from him ; so that he fell with the goat down the precipice a great height, and was so stunned and bruised with the fall, that he narrowly escaped with... | |
 | James Stanier Clarke - Shipwrecks - 1805 - 454 pages
...life : he pursued it -with so much eagerness, that he catched hold of it on the brink of a Precipice, of -which he was not aware, the bushes having hid...from him ; so that he fell with the goat down the Precipice a great height, and was so stunned and bruised with the fall, that he narrowlyescaped with... | |
 | English literature - 1806 - 1016 pages
...life ; he pursued it with so much eagerness, that he catched hold of it on the brink of a precipice, of which he was not aware, the bushes having hid it from him, so that he fell with the goat down the precipice a great height, and was so stunned and bruised with the fall, that he narrowly escaped with... | |
 | Nathaniel Wanley - Characters and characteristics - 1806 - 590 pages
...lite ; he pursued it with so much eag< niess, that he catched hold of it on the brii;k of a precipice, of which he was not aware, the bushes having hid it from him ; so that he fell with the goat dov.-u the said precipice a great height, and was so stunned and bruised with the fall, that he narrow... | |
 | Harleian miscellany - 1810 - 584 pages
...life ; he pursued it with so much eagerness, that he catrhed hold of it on the brink of a precipice, of which he was not aware, the bushes having hid it...from him ; so that he fell with the goat down the precipice a great height, and was so stunned and bruised with the fall, that he narrowly escaped with... | |
 | Great Britain - 1810 - 634 pages
...life; he pursued it with so much eagerness, that he catched hold of it on the brink of a precipice, of which he was not aware, the bushes having hid it from him; so that he fell with the goat down the precipice a great height, and was so stunned and bruised with the fall, that he narrowly escaped with... | |
 | Great Britain - 1810 - 602 pages
...life ; he pursued it with so much eagerness, that he catched hold of it on the brink of a precipice, of which he was not aware, the bushes having hid it from him; so that he fell with the goat down the precipice a great height, and was so stunned and bruised with the fall, that he narrowly escaped with... | |
 | Great Britain - 1810 - 590 pages
...eagerness, that he catrhëa hold of it on the brink of a precipice, of which he wes not aware, thft bushes having hid it from him; so that he fell with the goat down the precipice a great height, and was so stunned and bruiseil with the fall, that he narrowly escaped with... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1810 - 348 pages
...that he catched hold of it on the brink of a precipice, of which he was not aware, the bushes hiding it from him ; so that he fell with the goat down the precipice, a great height, and was so stunned and bruised with the fall, that he narrowly escaped with... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - 1821 - 300 pages
...life : he pursued it with so much eagernesss, that he catched hold of it on the brink of a precipice, of which he was not aware, the bushes having hid it...and was so stunned and bruised with the fall that he narrowly escaped with his life ; and when he came lo his senses he * Some goats, thus marked on the... | |
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He told us that his agility in pursuing a goat had once like to have cost him his life ; he pursued it with so much eagerness... 
