 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 334 pages
...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... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 396 pages
...those petty operations, incessantly continu«!, in time, surmount the greatest difficulties, an.'. mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded by the slender force of human beings. Variette». 1. Can Omnipotence do thins* incompatible яла contradictory ? 2. St. Augustine described... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 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. DXXXVII. The really Ignorant. — He that does not know those things which are of use... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 624 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 operations, incessantly continued, in lime surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains arc levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender... | |
 | C. T - 1847 - 316 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." But what is of more importance to us, as individuals, than the building of cities or the traversing... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1870 - 314 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. |l ambits afto fnstrfj. — 'VT. can be more delightful than a day spent in insect-hunting in the joyous... | |
 | 430 pages
...of one impression of the spade, with the general design, and last result, he would he overwhelmed hy the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty...difficulties, and mountains are levelled, and oceans hounded hy the slender force of human heings." He removed from Edinhurgh to London in 1826, and passed... | |
 | Women's periodicals, English - 1853 - 384 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,...oceans bounded by the slender force of human beings. A KHOHK.V HBABT.— Tod'e of a broken heartls un expression much ridiculed by those who, not fu*-«es3U)g... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1852 - 652 pages
...of one impression of ti,e 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." But what is of more importance to us, as individuals, than the building of cities or the traversing... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 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. PHILOSOPHY. — A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism ; but depth in philosophy... | |
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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,... 
