 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,...  The Works of Samuel Johnson - Page 281by Samuel Johnson - 1816Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 pages
...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...the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 526 pages
...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...the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason, and... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...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...oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. — Johnson. DLXIX. Wealth in the gross is death, but life diffus'd; As poison heals in just proportion... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...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...greatest difficulties, and mountains are levelled, sSul oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings.—Johnson. DL.XIX. Wealth in the gross is... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - Loneliness - 1830 - 416 pages
...of a spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed with the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty operations, incessantly...the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason and... | |
 | 1832 - 872 pages
...result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet these petty opérations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest...oceans bounded by the slender force of human beings." We shall therefore commence with the most simple and general principles, and by proceeding through... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their son Samu a being?. It is therefore of the utmost importance that those who have any intention of deviating from... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1835 - 398 pages
...of a spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed with a sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty operations, incessantly...the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...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...the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason, and... | |
 | Periodicals - 1838 - 274 pages
...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...oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. — JOHNSON. 381—2 CHAPTERS ON CORONATIONS. No. I. INVESTITURE OF A VASSAL KINO OF PERSIA. THE ORIGIN... | |
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