 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 334 pàgines
...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. The student who would build his knowledge on solid foundations, and proceed by just degrees to the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 624 pàgines
...overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, m have been animated by the rewards of the liberal,...gratify pride by submission, or malice by lamentation ; anv intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names... | |
 | Thomas Vaux (agriculturist.) - 1840 - 268 pàgines
...the general desisux and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of neir aispropornon ; jei, those petty operations incessantly continued, in time...oceans bounded by the slender force of human beings." " Our domestic animals, as well as our agriculture, are inferior to yours in point of size ; but this... | |
 | Mrs. Anne HOPE - 1842 - 382 pàgines
...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." — (Rambler, No. 43.) It may here be mentioned, that on the occasion of Sir James M°Grigor's visiting... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 620 pàgines
...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...incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest dilficulties, and mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings.... | |
 | Mrs. Hope (Anne Fulton) - 1844 - 416 pàgines
...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." — (Rambler, No. 43.) It may here be mentioned, that on the occasion of Sir James M'Grigor's visiting... | |
 | 1844 - 490 pàgines
...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 time surmount the ireatest difficulties, and mountains are :evelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human... | |
 | 1845 - 854 pàgines
...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. — Dr Johnson. I1UMANITV. True humanity consists not in a squeamish car ; it consists not in starting... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pàgines
...of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be ovenvhelmeil by the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty...difficulties, and mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded, hy the slender force of human beings. Varieties. l.Oan Omnipotence do things incompatible and contradictory... | |
 | Charles P. Bronson - 1845 - 438 pàgines
...result, he would be tretnuhelmetl by the sense of their difpropnrtion ; yet those petty nperiitions, incessantly continued, in time, surmount the greatest...oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. Varieties. l.Can Omnipotence do thing* incompatible una contradictory ? 2. St. Auguxtine described... | |
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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,... 
