 ... water ; and the agony of despair as it disappeared, after being dimly seen for an instant, while sinking below. Imagine a man possessing a small estate on a coast where the sea is continually encroaching. With what a melancholy feeling he sees each...  An Essay on the Improvement of Time - Seite 34von John Foster - 1866Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | National Sunday school union - 1868 - 288 Seiten
...encroaching. With what a melancholy feeling he sees each year the sterile sand brought a few feet farther, and after every storm a little more of the brink of...the mound crumbling, and even perhaps the walls of liis house beginning to crack, and warp from the correctness of their angle ! With what anxiety he... | |
 | E S. P - 1874 - 588 Seiten
...continually encroaching. With what a melancholy feeling he sees each year the sterile sand brought a few feet further, and after every storm a little...looks over the part of his ground that has not yet been invaded, and caleulates how long it may be saved, or in what manner most effectually cultivated... | |
 | 1882 - 780 Seiten
...continually encroaching. With what a melancholy feeling he sees each year the sterile sand brought a few feet further, and after every storm a little...looks over the part of his ground that has not yet been invaded, and calculates how long it may be saved, or in what manner most effectually cultivated... | |
 | John Foster - 1886 - 474 Seiten
...encroaching. With what a melancholy feeling he sees each year the sterile sand brought a few feet farther, and after every storm a little more of the brink of...looks over the part of his ground that has not yet been invaded, and calculates how long it may be saved, or in what manner most effectually cultivated.... | |
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