 | 1812 - 570 pàgines
...impression of the spade, with the general 'design and last result, he •would be overwhelmed by this sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty operations,...bounded, by the slender force of human beings." It is not consonant to our plan to go into a minute investigation of this interesting subject ; and it would... | |
 | Eliza Cook - 1850 - 442 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." He removed from Edinburgh to London in 1826, and passed his examination before the College of Surgeons... | |
 | 1851 - 344 pàgines
...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. — Johnson. HUMILITY AND HOLINESS. — It is the peculiarity of the Christian religion, that humility... | |
 | Maison, N. & Kumar - 1964 - 264 pàgines
...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. (Dr. Johnson) 7. Ah ! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven, When drooping health and spirits go amiss... | |
 | 1849 - 780 pàgines
...of one impression of the spado, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty...surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are leveled, and oceans bounded by the slender force of human beings." Rambler, p. 43. His taste for the... | |
 | 1887 - 430 pàgines
...general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet these petty operations incessantly continued, in time surmount...mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded by the slender forms of human beings. IT is NOT WELL that a man should always labour. His temporal as well as spiritual... | |
 | Wren & Martin - 434 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 difficutlties, and mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded, the slender force of human beings. —... | |
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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,... 
