 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
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...the spade, with the general design, and last result, he would he overwhelmed hy the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty operations incessantly...difficulties, and mountains are levelled, and oceans hounded hy the slender force of human heings." He removed from Edinhurgh to London in 1826, and passed... | |
 | Women's periodicals, English - 1853 - 386 pages
...of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed with a sense of their disproportion : yet those petty operations, incessantly...oceans bounded by the slender force of human beings. A KHOHK.V HBABT.— Tod'e of a broken heartls un expression much ridiculed by those who, not fu*-«es3U)g... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1851 - 360 pages
...is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals; it is therefore of the utmost importance that those who...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... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1852 - 652 pages
...ti,e 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." But what is of more importance to us, as individuals, than the building of cities or the traversing... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 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. PHILOSOPHY. — A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism ; but depth in philosophy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1853 - 336 pages
...is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals ; it is therefore of the utmost importance that those who have any intention of deviating from tue beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English essays - 1855 - 332 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... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 372 pages
...of the spade, with the general design and last result, be 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... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 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... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - Loneliness - 1856 - 378 pages
...of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed with a sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty operations, incessantly...surmount the greatest difficulties — and mountains are leveled, and oceans bounded by the slender force of human beings. It is therefore of the utmost importance... | |
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