 | 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...importance that those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time... | |
 | 1806 - 348 pages
...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...importance that those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 380 pages
...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 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;... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - Loneliness - 1808 - 430 pages
...has very forcibly observed, that " all the performances of human art, at which we look with piaise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of...therefore of the utmost importance that those who hi-ve any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior... | |
 | 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
...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...importance that those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time... | |
 | 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,...importance that those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superiour to names hourly swept away by time... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 462 pages
...would be overwhelmed by .the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty operaT 4 tions, tions, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest...importance that those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superiour to names hourly swept away by time... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...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...importance that those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten, roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time... | |
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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,... 
