| 1874 - 398 pągines
...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. CUEIOUS JEWISH CUSTOM, THE Jews of the Crimea, upon their marriage, wear a shirt of the finest texture,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pągines
...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. Such is the uncertainty of all human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies, and as it... | |
| 1879 - 542 pągines
...pickaxe, or one impression of a spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion. Yet those petty...greatest difficulties, and mountains are levelled, oceans are bounded, by the slender hand of human beings. The mighty pyramids of stone, That wedge-like... | |
| John Tillotson - 1880 - 392 pągines
...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. — Johmon. ccccxxxv. IHASTITY. — How large a portion of chastity is sent I out of the world by distant... | |
| Osgood Eaton Fuller - 1881 - 658 pągines
...or of one impression of a 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... | |
| 1854 - 606 pągines
...Petty operations, incessantly continued, In time stirmroint the greatest difficulties ; and mountain* are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings." — Da. JOHNSON. If there ever was a season adapted to MajorGeneral Beatson's system of cultivation,... | |
| James Crowther - 1882 - 204 pągines
...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. I ID you observe that my young friend had discovered that the ants are good anatomists... | |
| Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 pągines
...design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet those little operations incessantly continued, in time surmount...oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. Yet I argue not 172 It is not calculable what may be accomplished in everything in life by moderate... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 502 pągines
...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. Rambler, No. 43. Petitioning : THIS petitioning is a new mode of distressing government, and a mighty... | |
| Alfred Williams Momerie - 1889 - 334 pągines
...disproportion; yet these petty operations, incessantly continued, in time overcome the greatest difficulties ; mountains are levelled and oceans bounded by the slender force of human beings." Sir Jonah Barrington used to tell a story of a carpenter who was making a magistrate's bench, and who... | |
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