 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,...  Eliza Cook's journal - Pàgina 294Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1803 - 322 pàgines
...overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty operations, incessantly'continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded by the slender force of human beings. It is, therefore, of the utmost importance that those... | |
 | 1806 - 348 pàgines
...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...difficulties, and mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. It is therefore of the utmost importance that those... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 380 pàgines
...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...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 pàgines
...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; upon, which... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1808 - 430 pàgines
...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...difficulties ; and mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded by the slender force of human beings. It is therefore of the utmost importance that those who... | |
 | 1808 - 356 pàgines
...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...difficulties ; and mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. It is, therefore, of the utmost importance, that those... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 376 pàgines
...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 - 1809 - 352 pàgines
...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...difficulties, and mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. It is therefore of the utmost importance that those... | |
 | 1810 - 464 pàgines
...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,...difficulties, and mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. It is therefore of the utmost importance that those... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 462 pàgines
...would be overwhelmed by .the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty operaT 4 tions, tions, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest...difficulties, and mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. It is therefore of the utmost importance that those... | |
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