 | Samuel Johnson - English essays - 1855 - 332 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... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 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. DLXIX. Wealth in the gross is death, but life, diffus'd ; As poison heals in just proportion... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 372 pages
...of one impression- of the spade, with the general design and last result, be would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty...oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. — Johnson. DLXIX. Wealth in the gross is death, but life, diffus'd ; As poison heals in just proportion... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - Loneliness - 1856 - 378 pages
...one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed with a sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty operations,...surmount the greatest difficulties — and mountains are leveled, and oceans bounded by the slender force of human beings. It is therefore of the utmost importance... | |
 | 1858 - 866 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...continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties ; and thus mountains are leveled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings." How тик ABOLITION... | |
 | Church work with the poor - 1859 - 400 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. — JohnWANT OF EXPERIENCE. How continually from want of experience do the young confound under one... | |
 | Charles Anthony Coke - 1864 - 212 pages
...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...continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and u.ountains '• are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings." — Johnson.... | |
 | Churches of Christ - 1865 - 452 pages
...one impression of the spade with the general design or the last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty...oceans bounded by the slender force of human beings." The great freetrader's motto was that of the needle, " I go through." Having given himself to the cause,... | |
 | Richard Vickerman Taylor - 1865 - 552 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. Industry, if no more than habit, is at least an excellent one. If you ask us, kind reader, which is... | |
 | E S. P - 1874 - 588 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. Perseverance and Patience. — So have I seen n lark rising from his bed of grass, and... | |
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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,... 
