 If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued,...  Memoir of the Late James Hope ... - Page 13by Mrs. Hope (Anne Fulton) - 1844 - 365 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English literature - 1803 - 322 pages
...overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty operations, incessantly'continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains...oceans bounded by the slender force of human beings. It is, therefore, of the utmost importance that those who have any intention of deviating from the... | |
 | 1806 - 348 pages
...countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of a pickaxi or of one impression of the spade, with the general...oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. It is therefore of the utmost importance that those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 380 pages
...coun'.ries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of a pick* x , or of one impression of the spade, with the general...greatest difficulties, and mountains are levelled, and odeans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. It is therefore of the utmost importance that... | |
 | 1817 - 798 pages
...last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet these petty operatiens, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest...difficulties, and mountains are levelled and oceans hounded, by the slender force of human beings." — (No. 43.) The King and the British Constitution;... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 372 pages
...aside, but constancy which fatigues cannot weary, and contrivance which impediments cannot exhaust. All the performances of human art, at which we look...oceans' bounded, by the slender force of human beings. It is therefore of the utmost importance that those-' who have any intention of deviating from the... | |
 | American literature - 1808 - 356 pages
...of one impression of a spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed with the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty...oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. It is, therefore, of the utmost importance, that those who have any intention of deviating frO'n the... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - Loneliness - 1808 - 430 pages
...of one impression of a spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed with the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty...oceans bounded by the slender force of human beings. It is therefore of the utmost importance that those who hi-ve any intention of deviating from the beaten... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 376 pages
...would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, m-> cessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are levelled, and ocean* bounded, by the slender force of human beings. It is therefore of the utmost importance that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English essays - 1809 - 352 pages
...countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pick-ax, or of one impression of the spade, with the general...oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. It is therefore of the utmost importance that those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten... | |
 | 1810 - 464 pages
...one impression of the spade, with .the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by thq sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty operations,...oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. It is therefore of the utmost importance that those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten... | |
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