 | Pliny (the Younger.), William Melmoth - Latin letters - 1757 - 390 pages
...flopped to confider whether he mould return back again ; to which the pilot advifing him, Fortune, faid he, befriends the brave ; Carry me to Pomponianus. Pomponianus was then at' Stabise, feparated by a gulf, which the fea, after feveral infenfible windings, forms upon the more.... | |
 | Biography - 1762 - 438 pages
...to confider, whether he fliould return back again: to which the pilot advifing him, " Fortune," laid he,-" befriends the brave, carry me to Pomponianus." Pomponianus was then at Stabiae, a town feparated by a gulf, •which the fea, after feveral windings, forms upon that fhore. He found... | |
 | Biography - 1762 - 438 pages
...to confider, whether he fhould return back again : to which the pilot advifing him, " Fortune," faid he, •" befriends the brave, carry me to Pomponianus." Pomponianus was then at Stable-, a town feparated by a gulf, which the fea, after feveral windings, forms upon that fhore.... | |
 | Biography - 1798 - 514 pages
...he flopped to confider, whether he fhould return? to which the pilot advifing him, " Fortune," faid he, " befriends the brave; carry me to Pomponianus." Pomponianus was then at Stabix, a town feparated by a gulf, which the fea, after feveral windings, forms upon that fliore.... | |
 | Characters and characteristics - 1804 - 560 pages
...only of being aground by the sudden retreat of the sea, but also from the vast fragments which rolled down from the mountain, and obstructed all the shore....he stopped to consider, whether he should return? to which the pilot advising him, " Fortune," said he," befriends the brave ; carry me to Ponrponianus."... | |
 | Pliny (the Younger.) - Lawyers - 1807 - 424 pages
...the sudden retreat of the sea, but also from the vast fragments which rolled down from the mountains, and obstructed all the shore. Here he stopped, to consider whether he should return back ; to which the pilot advising him, " For" tune," said he, " befriends the brave ; steer to " Pomponianus."... | |
 | Pliny (the Younger.) - Authors, Latin - 1809 - 346 pages
...mountains, and obstructed all the shore. Here he stopped, to consider whether he should return back ; to which the pilot advising him, " Fortune," said he, " befriends the brave ; steer to Pomponianus." Pomponianus was then at Stahiae,* separated by a gulf, which the sea, after... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 540 pages
...only of being aground by the sudden retreat of the sea, but also from the vast fragments which rolled down from the mountain, and obstructed all the shore....Here he stopped to consider, whether he should return ; to which the pilot advising him, " Fortune," said he, " befriends the brave ; carry me to Pomponianus."... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 pages
...mountains, and obstructed all toe shore. Here he stopped, to consider whether he should return back ; to which the pilot advising him, " Fortune," said he, " befriends the brave ; steer to Pomponianus." Pomponianus was then at Stabias *, separated by a gulf, which the sea, after... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 540 pages
...the mountain, and obstructed all the shore. Here he stopped to consider, whether he should return j to which the pilot advising him, " Fortune," said he, " befriends the brave i carry me to Pomponianus.'' Pomponianus was then at Stabias, a town separated by a gulf, which the... | |
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... mountain, that the cinders, which grew thicker and hotter the nearer he approached, fell into the ships, together with pumice-stones, and black pieces of burning rock : they were likewise in danger, not only of being aground by the sudden retreat... 
