 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 394 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 - 1816 - 462 pages
...the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of tlieir disproportion ; yet those petty operations, incessantly...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 - English literature - 1816 - 524 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...continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mouiu tains are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. It is therefore... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1816 - 630 pages
...united by canals ; small operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties ; mountains are levelled, and oceans' bounded, by the slender force of human beings." Those, therefore, who wish to gain any particular object, should add to their reason and spirit the... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1817 - 780 pages
...general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed 1>y the sense of their disproportion ; yet these petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount...difficulties, and mountains are levelled and oceans hounded, by the slender force of human beings."— (No. 43.) The {oniugAe desired 'objects.— Motion... | |
 | 1817 - 646 pages
...surmount the greatest diflicullies; and mountains are levelled, and oceans hounded, by the (lender force of human beings It is, therefore, of the utmost importance, that those who have iiny intention of deviating from the beaten roa<J« of life, ar.d acquiring a reputation superior lo... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 368 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 superiour to names hourly swept away by time... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 462 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, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 462 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 superiour to names hourly swept away by time... | |
 | Alexander Beatson - Agriculture - 1820 - 198 pages
...BEATSON, LATE GOVERNOR OF THE ISLAND OF ST. HELENA, AND HONORARY MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. " Petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount...oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings." Doctor Johnson. LONDON : PRINTED BY W. BULMER AND W. NICOL, CLEVELAND-HOW AND SOLD BY G. AND W. NICOL,... | |
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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,... 
