 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
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 620 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...incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest dilficulties, and mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings.... | |
 | Mrs. Hope (Anne Fulton) - 1844 - 416 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." — (Rambler, No. 43.) It may here be mentioned, that... | |
 | 1844 - 490 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...operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the ireatest difficulties, and mountains are :evelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human... | |
 | 1845 - 854 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. — Dr Johnson. I1UMANITV. True humanity consists not... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pàgines
...of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be ovenvhelmeil by the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty...difficulties, and mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded, hy the slender force of human beings. Varieties. l.Oan Omnipotence do things incompatible... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 334 pàgines
...one impression of the spade, with the general de~ sign and last result, he would be otenv/ielmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty...continued, in time, surmount the greatest difficulties, and motmtains arc levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. Varieties. l.Can... | |
 | Charles P. Bronson - 1845 - 438 pàgines
...result, he would be tretnuhelmetl by the sense of their difpropnrtion ; yet those petty nperiitions, incessantly continued, in time, surmount the greatest...difficulties, and mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. Varieties. l.Can Omnipotence do thing* incompatible... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 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. — Johnson. DXXXVII. The really Ignorant. — He that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 624 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 operations, incessantly continued, in lime surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains arc levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender... | |
 | C. T - 1847 - 316 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." But what is of more importance to us, as individuals,... | |
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