 | 1832 - 872 pages
...result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet these petty opérations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest...oceans bounded by the slender force of human beings." We shall therefore commence with the most simple and general principles, and by proceeding through... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by son being?. It is therefore of the utmost importance that those who have any intention of deviating from... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1835 - 398 pages
...one impression of a spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed with a 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 superior to names hourly swept away by time... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 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... | |
 | Periodicals - 1838 - 274 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...oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. — JOHNSON. 381—2 CHAPTERS ON CORONATIONS. No. I. INVESTITURE OF A VASSAL KINO OF PERSIA. THE ORIGIN... | |
 | Periodicals - 1838 - 272 pages
...of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, ho would bo overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty...oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. JOHNSON. 381—2 CHAPTERS ON CORONATIONS. No. I. INVESTITURE OP A VASSAL KING OF PE11SIA. THE ORIGIN... | |
 | 1838 - 544 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...mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the alcndor foivo of human beings. JOHNSON. 381—2 CHAPTERS- ON CORONATIONS. No. I. INVESTITURE OF A VASSAL... | |
 | John Taylor - Quotations - 1839 - 258 pages
...impression of the spade, with the general design and last reVOL. II.—3 .suit, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty...and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings.—Johnson, The really Ignorant.—He that does not know those things which are of use and necessity... | |
 | Baroness Rosina Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1839 - 296 pages
...general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet these petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount...oceans bounded by the slender force of human beings." Lord Melford was apparently of the same opinion; for, upon Cheveley's arrival at the Clarendon, he... | |
 | Rembrandt Peale - American literature - 1839 - 276 pages
...general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet these petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount...oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. Johnson. SENSE OF BEAUTY. MIND, mind alone, (bear witness, earth and heaven !) The living fountain... | |
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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,... 
