 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 466 páginas
...weary, and contrivance which impediments cannot exhaust. All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance : it is by this '^ quarry becomes a pyramid, and that tf: tries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 526 páginas
...weary, and contrivance which impediments cannot exhaust. All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the...becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pick-axe, or of one impression... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 páginas
...their own way, but hardly a whole nation.—Sdden. DLXVm. All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the...becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pickaxe, or.of one impression... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 páginas
...own way, but hardly a whole nation. — Selden. DLXVIII. All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the...becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united Avith canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pickaxe, or of one impression... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1830 - 416 páginas
...celebrated English writer, has very forcibly observed, that " all the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the...a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke with the pickaie, or of one impression of a spade, with the general design and last result, he would... | |
 | 1832 - 872 páginas
...It has been well observed by an elegant writer, that " all the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the...are united by canals. If a man was to compare the effects ofa single stroke of the pick-axe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design... | |
 | 1832 - 548 páginas
...PERSEVERANCE. ALL the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are the resulls of perseverance. It is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries arc united by canals ; it is therefore of the utmost importance that those who have nny intention of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 páginas
...weary, and contrivance which impediments cannot exhaust. All the performances of human art, at which n of a false * lor ever bid defiance to the most...Homer, though they may give way in time to the@Q with canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pick-axe, or of one impression... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 páginas
...impediments cannot exhaust. All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, arc instances of the resistless force of perseverance...becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pick-axe, or of one impression... | |
 | 1838 - 272 páginas
...insupportable even to himself. ST. ErHRAiM ; Book of the Fathers. ALL the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the...single stroke of a pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, ho would bo overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion... | |
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All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance : it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. 
